Therefore, the three-self ability is called the ability of students' self-education, self-management and self-service. One of the goals of student management is to cultivate students' three-self ability, and lay the foundation for students to become citizens who love the motherland, abide by the law, have social morality and civilized behavior habits, and become high-quality workers with social responsibility, entrepreneurial spirit and innovative ability. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council's Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving College Students' Ideological and Political Education pointed out that a basic principle of strengthening and improving college students' work is: "Insist on combining education with self-education. It is necessary to give full play to the educational guiding role of school teachers and party organizations, and to fully mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of college students and guide them to self-education, self-management and self-service.
Under the new situation, this management model has been perfected and interpreted. The core of "self-education" is to educate and establish students' own ideals and beliefs, that is, to improve the comprehensive quality of college students. "Self-management" means that students restrain and guide themselves. "Self-service" includes material services and spiritual services such as ideological promotion and values cultivation.