General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping stressed at the National Education Conference further improving the country’s personnel fostering system and building an education system which comprehensively fosters the students’ all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding with a hard-working spirit. Based on the practice of labor education for college students in colleges and universities, this article studies the new conditions, new content and new requirements of labor education for college students in the new era, and uses new philosophies, new viewpoints and new methods of system theory to explore the new system, new model and new initiatives of labor education in colleges and universities.