Abstract: Cultivating and practicing the Socialist Core Values is a unique discourse construction carried out in contemporary China. With the attributes of mainstream ideological discourse,the Socialist Core Values are a set of cultural symbolic systems constructed with words and concepts via “abbreviation” strategies such as generalization and condensation. The discourse power of the Socialist Core Values needs to further follow the logic of life-oriented “decoding”,rely on the multi-dimensional “interpretation” that integrates history and reality to promote value understanding,enhance value identification in the relational construction of equal dialogue,implement the conscious value commitment of all social members in the value guidance of role models,and truly release and give play to the symbolic value of “political mobilization” and “spiritual cohesion” of core values,and achieve the organic connection between the theoretical connotation and practical logic of core values.

Key words: modern political culture, discourse analysis, core values, life-oriented