As the youth organization of Marxist political party, China’s Communist Youth League has intrinsic cultural essence and value pursuit. College communist youth league, an important part of the CYL, is an advanced youth’s public organization under the leadership by the Party committee and increasingly holds a strategic and foundational status in the Youth League organizations. College communist youth league’s function includes political function, implemental function and value function. The performance of its function concerns the quality of the talents cultivated in universities and the cultivation of builders and successors of the socialist cause. Hence, on the one hand, it should persist the Party’s leadership, implement the principles guiding the Party and keep the special political relationship between the Party and Communist Youth League. On the other hand, it should embody the political nature, advanced nature and people-originated nature.College communist youth league’s function has undergone three historical stages and in the modern period, it is faced with challenges and opportunities, which were never met before. Social change and the Internet age bring great difficulty to the performance of its function. The new characters and requirement of university students lead to the insufficient supply of products of college communist youth league and also because of higher education reform, the demands on college communist youth league get more pressing. At the same time, college CYL increasingly hold a strategic status in CYL and the scientific proficiency of its construction has been improved. More importantly market economy development abundant material basis and work carrier for college CYL.More importantly, market economy development provides Therefore, the route that college CYL’s function is performed should be conducted from four aspects. Firstly, socialist core values should be the main project to lead college CYL thoughts and we should construct the discourse system in which college CYL cultivates and practices socialist core values. Secondly, we should focus on the construction of new media as the important direction, in which college CYL mobilizes and innovates working methods, so as to promote college CYL’s informationization and the comprehensive coverage of new media led by college CYL. In addition, with the goal of cultivating student’s growth, college CYL should play fundamental role of organizing, servicing and practicing for education. It ought to optimize structures to play the role of organizing for education, strength the ability and quality of college CYL’s service to play the role of servicing for education and play the role of practicing for education in the project-based, branding and socialized way of thinking. Last but not least, we should persist that league cadres should have both morels and abilities as well as innovation to strengthen league cadres’ team building project, improve their work style, boost the scientific proficiency of cultivating league cadres, create an atmosphere of pioneering work, reform and innovation and build a reasonable appraisal system of league cadres. |