Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping has put forward a series of innovative concepts, perspectives, and propositions on education, forming a comprehensive discourse system. This discourse system takes “cultivating people” as its fundamental premise and is grounded in profound practical, theoretical, and historical underpinnings. It encompasses core principles such as “party leadership,” and “fostering virtue through education” with its central tenet being the “Nine Insistences” covering eleven strategic aspects. The “six must insist” encapsulates Xi Jinping’s adherence to and development of Marxist worldview, methodology, and educational philosophy. Xi Jinping’s statements represent the latest achievement in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist educational theory for socialist education with Chinese characteristics, manifesting the unity of scientific rigor, systematic nature, people-centricity, practicality, and innovation. The statements hold significant political, theoretical, practical, cultural, and global implications. It marks the emergence of a new era of socialist educational thought system with Chinese characteristics, warranting further theoretical exploration and development.