"Striving for Excellence" refers to recommending outstanding league members as the development object of the party (hereinafter referred to as "striving for Excellence"), while "striving for Excellence" refers to recommending outstanding talents to join the party. "Striving for Excellence" is one of the basic tasks of the Youth League, that is, organizing the Youth League to recommend outstanding members with high quality and high public prestige to the Party.

The optimization criteria are roughly as follows:

1. Have a firm belief in socialism and productism, support the Four Cardinal Principles, persist in reform and opening up, firmly follow the socialist road, be able to participate in the party constitution Group and the Marxism-Leninism Group for a long time, and play a leading role as a backbone.

2. Actively demand ideological progress, move closer to the party organization, consciously demand yourself with party member standards, regard joining the party organization as their political pursuit, insist on influencing students with advanced and correct words and deeds, be consistent in words and deeds, be mature in thought and have correct views.

3. Make clear the historical mission and objectives of young intellectuals, study hard, have a correct attitude, work hard, actively participate in society and practice, and have no violation of discipline and failure in principle.