Abstract: Since the 18th CPC Central Committee,the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core has comprehensively promoted youth ideological and political education and formed a complete view on youth ideological and political education. This theory has distinct logical logic:the absorption and transformation of Chinese traditional culture, the inheritance and development of Marxist youth ideological and political education thought, and the reflection on and summarization of youth ideological and political education practice are its generating logic; with strategic position theory, value goal theory, fundamental principle theory and content system theory as the overall layout, a strict structural logic is constructed; promoting the new development of Marxist youth ideological and political education theory, constructing new answers to practical problems of youth ideological and political education, and marking the new direction of youth growth and struggle in the new era are its value logic; adhering to the requirement of all-round education provides practical direction for youth ideological and political education. Systematic analysis of the essence of youth ideological and political education is of great significance for doing a good job in youth ideological and political education and cultivating a new generation of the times.

Key words: Xi Jinping, ideological and political education, generation logic, structural logic, value logic, practice logic