Abstract: It is an important task for universities to strengthen and improve, without any pause, the education about the political thought of the modern university students. With the continuous development and progress of the society, there occur new changes and new characteristics in the state of the political thought of the students born in the 80s and 90s. By investigating and analyzing the state of political thought, value orientation and attitude towards life of the students of ten universities in Wuhan, the targeting countermeasures and suggestions about education of the political thought have been provides for the purpose of reference to the political thought educators in universities.

Key words: the 90s, the 80s, university students, education of political thought