Abstract: The proposal of “people first” has aroused great interest and attention in the academic circles, and has quickly become the academic focus of researches on political party construction. In recent years, the academic circles have carried out extensive and continuous discussions on the generative logic, practical requirements and value implications of the Communist Party of China's “people first” thought in the new era, and have achieved fruitful research results. Those researches provide academic materials for understanding of the people first thought of the Communist Party of China in the new era. But on the other hand, those researches have their limitations in that they lack a broad research vision and systematic research content, and they use relatively simple research methods. In answer to the need in the new era to outline a new map of Marxism in China, studies on CPC’s thought of “people first” should focus on the demands of the times to constantly open up a new realm of Marxism in China, so as to further strengthen the research on “people first” thought of the Communist Party of China in the new era by broadening the research horizon, deepening the research content and by optimizing the research method.

Key words: the Communist Party of China, the “people first” thought, state governance, national rejuvenation, new era