Youth is the future of the motherland, the hope of the nation and the backbone of society. The construction and cultivation of their values are directly related to the future of the country and the destiny of the nation. In the new social environment, having the correct values of self-growth ability is not only a realistic problem related to the actual life and living conditions of young people, but also a theoretical topic that must be answered. People have duality: human life is both social and biological; People's needs are both material and spiritual; The realization of human self-worth is not only for me, but also for him. Therefore, the education of contemporary youth values is particularly important.

The highest orientation of youth values is truth, goodness and beauty. Through the questionnaire survey and analysis of the most representative college students in contemporary youth groups, it is found that they are generally positive, full of the spirit of the times and correct in values, but there are still many problems, such as marketization, secularization and materialization of value orientation, deviation and rejection of social dominant value orientation, dislocation of values, and mistakes and confusion in understanding justice, good and evil, gentlemen and villains. All these need to shape and cultivate the values of contemporary youth from the realistic and theoretical levels. At the same time, there are many excellent elements in western culture that we can learn from, such as diligence and thrift, cherishing time and advocating the spirit of self-struggle. The following is elaborated from two aspects:

On the one hand, what kind of values should contemporary China youth have?

Second, how should the values of contemporary China youth be constructed?

On the one hand, what kind of values should contemporary China youth have?

In the process of building a harmonious society, every young student is faced with the task of becoming a talent. How to become a talent suitable for building a harmonious society requires our all-round development. How can we become top-notch innovative successful talents and improve our own quality in an all-round way? As we enter a new era, the new connotation of "quality" has not been studied enough. The so-called talent quality refers to the combination of congenital factors and acquired factors. The cultivation of these people should neither exclude innate factors nor acquired factors. It is a stable, potential and long-term basic quality, basic ability and basic concept, and it is a human quality. In this range, we will discuss the connotation of quality and the quality structure of young talents in China. The quality structure that young people should have includes six aspects: scientific development, harmonious life, happiness of people's livelihood, democracy and rule of law, fairness and justice, kindness and faithfulness. With these conditions, they are all-round successful talents who can adapt to the development of 2 1 century and harmonious society. We talk about values around three main points: ideal, values and mind.

First, the ideal-we need to focus on and grasp, socialism and the social ideal of * * * production provide young people with the direction and motivation of life.

The social ideal of socialism and * * * production plays a role in providing direction and motivation for the life of our youth. Youth is also the most fanatical period to pursue the ideal of socialism and * * * productism. With ideals, there is a direction, and with motivation, it will promote people's growth and correct values.

Young people are straightforward, honest and pursue their ideals, but their self-control ability is worse than that of adults. What young people lack is not material culture, but ideals, beliefs and spiritual pillars. If this problem can be solved, young people can have a correct estimation and choice of their values, which is the premise. President Hu Jintao told us that we should use the ideological weapons of dialectics and historical materialism to build our ideals and beliefs on the rational basis of scientific analysis, that is, we should master scientific theories and understand scientific ideals.

Second, values-life values are guided by the world outlook and have the characteristics of social ideology.

The values of life are to combine and link the realization of one's own value with the realization of national development. On this issue, we should solve the following problems:

First, the relationship between individuals and society.

Second, respect the legitimate interests of individuals.

Third, we should establish the standard of life value.

Marx's Das Kapital demonstrates that capital does not create social material wealth, but social material wealth is created by labor. In the socialist country established according to Marx's viewpoint, the social standard has changed fundamentally, and taking money as the standard will lead to some people losing their humanity.

Third, mental work should be philosophical and have an optimistic attitude towards life.

Now people's living standards have generally improved, which makes some young people's psychological quality relatively fragile and not broad-minded enough. If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Foresight is our lofty goal, and near worry is our immediate fame and fortune. If they only care about immediate fame and fortune, they will not be optimistic. When encountering some practical problems, we should take a calm attitude towards the immediate fame and fortune. As young people, we should temper our will, be persistent, have perseverance and work hard. Strong will is the expression of a person's vitality; Look at your situation dialectically. Cultivate your modesty. The humble attitude towards ourselves and others objectively is what our generation needs most. Be lenient with others, be strict with yourself, and be lenient with others.

As a sub-cultural group, contemporary youth's values have two sides, which should be correctly positioned and evaluated. On the one hand, the youthful vitality of young people is open, innovative, pioneering and vigorous, which determines the vitality and vitality of a country and a nation, means any possible development prospect in the future, is the symbol and motivation of social vitality, and is an inexhaustible source of continuous development of social productive forces; When young people enter the society with a surging heart of youth, if this motivation is used properly, the values and lifestyle of the younger generation will bring "frontier culture", inject vitality into the society and "feed back" the mainstream culture of the society. On the other hand, the rebellious nature of teenagers, also known as the rebellious, rebellious, emotional and anti-social characteristics of adolescence, can easily form an undercurrent of social instability. If left unchecked, this "undercurrent" may gradually develop into a "negative tide" and an "undercurrent", eroding the rational wisdom of the whole society. Therefore, the positive and negative effects of teenagers' values and cultural morality should be fully estimated and scientifically guided, especially the scientific and effective guidance of values.

The second aspect is how to construct the values of contemporary China youth.

In today's era, Marxist values are correct and advanced. This value is based on the masses of the people, and the starting point and destination of all beliefs, beliefs and rationality it contains are standing on the standpoint of the proletariat and the masses of the people, striving for the most thorough liberation of mankind and the all-round development of human beings. A strong youth makes a strong country.

First, the space-time situation of contemporary China youth's core values construction-the worry of "development"

Development should be reinterpreted as a blow to the major scourges in today's world: malnutrition, disease, illiteracy, slums, unemployment and inequality. Judging from the total growth rate, the development has achieved great success. But from the perspective of employment, justice and poverty eradication, this is a failure, or only a partial success. "From the perspective of the relationship between man and nature, development was originally intended to make people live poetically on the earth, but the ecological crisis and human development ability go hand in hand, resulting in the survival crisis of mankind." "Ecological crisis" is not only a subjective judgment or ideological discourse, but also an objective judgment.

"Development" has become one of the biggest threats to nature, or the irreparable damage to the regenerative power of nature comes from "development". Modern civilization has triggered the unrestrained desire and development of human beings. Water, air and soil, the three most important resources of human life, are approaching. 1990, Mustafa Tolba, executive chairman of the United Nations Environment Programme, pointed out that global warming, ozone depletion and biodiversity loss are the three "threats" that nature faces: water, air pollution, land, global warming, ozone depletion and biodiversity loss.

In order to "develop", today's society has paid too much price, and development has become the privilege of a few people, while underdevelopment has become the fate of most people in the world, and the relationship between people and society is becoming more and more tense. It brings five phenomena of "growth without development", namely, "growth without work", "silent growth", "relentless growth", "rootless growth" and "no future growth". During 1997, rich countries accounted for about 20% of the world's population, but consumed 86% of the world's goods and services. The poorest 20% of the population only enjoy the global 1. It accounts for 3% of consumption (1998 United Nations Human Development Report). Today, in the 2 1 century, 1 children die of hunger or diseases caused by hunger every six seconds in the world (see news 2009). Development alienation: Development alienation and economic growth "go hand in hand". Development was originally subordinate to a better life. Development is not only economic development, but also humanistic development, but "development" has become a kind of "alienation of the rich".

Two, with the socialist core value system to lead the construction of contemporary China youth core values.

Today's society is in a period when the contradiction between "new" problems and "deep-seated" problems is prominent, and mass incidents are frequent and prone to occur. There have been some phenomena, such as "grow big before you are strong", "grow old before you get rich", "wither before you develop" and "develop at high cost". "Made in China" consumes too much resources. According to statistics, China's energy consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP is 3 of the world average. Four times, nine times that of Japan. 7 times, the unit energy consumption of 33 main products is 46% higher than the international average. China's total energy consumption is 1. 7 times, but the total GDP is only equivalent to 28% of Japan's. Behind the high growth is high pollution.

People often refer to the large number of poor people produced by modernization as "Latin American phenomenon" or "Latin American trap". The most prominent manifestation of "Latin American phenomenon" is the increasingly prominent poverty problem and serious polarization. The income gap has widened, the poverty population is huge, and the regional development gap has widened. Reflection on the development phenomenon of "seeing things but not people", economic growth is not coordinated with social development, education development lags behind, people's all-round development is affected, people's materialization appears, and people's life value is ignored. "The speed and scale of GDP growth, even per capita DGP, are not necessarily good, and economic development is not a sports meeting"; "World multipolarization and economic globalization are developing in depth, scientific and technological progress is changing with each passing day, the international financial crisis has a far-reaching impact, the world economic structure has undergone new changes, and the international power balance has shown a new trend" (Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee). Economic growth is highly dependent on the international market (foreign trade dependence is 60%), and it lacks independent innovation ability, core technology and independent intellectual property rights. (90% are brand products without their own "brains" and "hearts") Pay attention to the international market, domestic demand, low-cost advantages, important material input of independent innovation, resource environment, wealth growth, improvement of people's livelihood and social welfare.

Generally speaking, the running-in and adjustment between contemporary youth and society is still the mainstream. With the reflection of China youth on "radical individualism" and the abandonment of "abstract collectivism", under the influence of the whole political, economic and cultural development achievements, the sharp contradiction between youth and society has gradually become history. In the way of life, young people are often intoxicated and infatuated with diverse and "disorderly" things, so they are on the verge of desire and emotion. They are precocious than their parents, and have long been worried or afraid of various pressures (such as school, employment and economic pressure). They don't want to repeat the mistakes of their parents. They abandon the value orientation of "selflessness" and "selfless dedication", fear material scarcity and pursue material enjoyment. Form a kind of "brinkmanship" value, which makes young people in a non-mainstream position in the "cultural field" and makes their overall lifestyle portrayal show the edge of behavior, emotion, concept and interest. This relationship is reflected in the interaction between individuals and society. The attitude towards life means that "realism" and "utilitarianism" accept the drive of reality instead of "competing" with it. Survival is the rational choice of young people. They seek a kind of knowledge between society and individuals, a balance between mainstream culture and subculture, and a rationality in seeking truth and enjoying life.