Abstract: The modern Chinese civilization, as put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping in Chinese path to modernization, encompasses several key aspects. Firstly, it represents a creative transformation and innovative development rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Secondly, it forms a new type of modern socialist civilization with Chinese characteristics, with Marxism as its core essence. Thirdly, it embodies a spiritual form derived from the practical basis of modernizing Chinese education, marked by distinct subject orientation, Chinese characteristics, and contemporary features. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statements on the spirit of educators endows teachers in the new era with a lofty mission, as well as a cultural duty to engage in the construction of modern Chinese civilization. We should fully understand the principles and spiritual motivation of teachers' cultural construction under the guidance of the macro-strategy of the modernization of Chinese education, and reshape the lofty personality, spiritual style and professional quality that teachers should possess in the new era. To do this, we need to strengthen cultural self-confidence and pay attention to the cultivation of ideals, beliefs and moral sentiments, adhere to the right innovation, pay attention to the practice of educating people's wisdom and cultivating attitude, uphold openness and inclusiveness, and pay attention to the embodiment of benevolence and grand pursuit.