Abstract: “Investing in people” is the strategic support driving the comprehensive development of individuals and high-quality economic and social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important exposition on “investing in people” systematically responds to major epochal propositions such as the iteration of development concepts in the new era, the transformation of development drivers, the reshaping of development logic, and the leap in development paradigms, marking a new height in the Chinese Communist Party’s understanding of the laws of human capital development. Firstly, it reshapes the value concept at the value level, transcends Western human capital theories, and proposes an original understanding of “people-centeredness”. Secondly, it perceives the historical position at the cognitive level, makes an original judgment on closely integrating “investing in things” and “investing in people”, and clarifies the dialectical relationship between the subject and object. Finally, it solves complex propositions at the methodological level, condensing four dimensions of original methods in the practice of the Chinese path to modernization.General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important exposition on “investing in people” places human modernization at the core, providing a new practical path for solidly promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Key words: invest in people, invest in things, original contribution, modernization of people