Abstract: XI Jinping’s important expositions on higher education contain systematic thinking on how to realize the connotative development of China’s higher education. Among the expositions, adhering to the party’s leadership in overall higher education, taking morality and cultivating people as the fundamental task and taking root in China to run education fully exhibit the value dimensions such as “value direction”, “value purpose” and “value evaluation”, showing the dialectical unity of the “scientific law” and the socialist “value concept” of higher education. Analyzing and elaborating on the value dimension of Xi Jinping’s expositions on higher education has important theoretical significance and practical value for deeply understating the internal logic of higer education reform in the new era and promoting the connotative development of China’s higher education.