The construction of china's core values in the current stage meets the challenges from a series of factors home and abroad in the complex process of economy globalization,The domestic economy and social changes,and the imperfectness of the socialist market economy which has caused confusion,misunderstanding of the core values of the Chinese people in the field of thoughts.Historical materialism is the ideological weapon by which we explore the root of complex situations,criticize the the values of bourgeoisie and rationallyanalyze the understanding of our country's core values.Only by considering the reality of social and economic relations and the overall interests of the people,consciously using the historical materialism as the perspective and methods to deal with those complex factors at home and abroad can we fundamentally deal with the challenges of the Western bourgeois values and protect the scientific and realistic nature of the construction of our core values.