Abstract: The traditional Chinese people-oriented thought is mainly reflected in the phrase that “the people are the foundation of the state, the state becomes stronger if the foundation is solid.” This concept has rich connotations, including cherishing the people, the people being more important than the monarch, and giving peace to the people, all of them have become an important cultural heritage to the treasure house of traditional Chinese culture. The Communist Party of China has drawn a lot of essences from the traditional people-oriented thought and has created a unique Party’s mass line thought. Especially after the Party’s 18th Congress, the Communist Party of China sticks to the mass line thought in its practice of managing state affairs by actively inheriting, scientifically sublating and creatively transcending the traditional people-oriented thought, thus giving it a distinctive value of times.

Key words: people-oriented thought; the mass line; Xi Jinping; managing state affairs