Abstract: Tutor is the key force and also the first person liable of postgraduate training in China. Under the new situation, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of postgraduate tutor team to train high-level talents. According to the education requirements put forward by The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the current situation and problems of the tutor team are sorted out. Taking “foster character and civic virtue” being the basic task of education as a starting point, this paper explores the construction of “ethics first” post selection assessment mechanism, training communication mechanism of “classification”, teacher-centered scientific research and education mechanism, “two integration” management mechanism and tries to construct tutor team system which takes “foster character and civic virtue” as the primary responsibility. Strengthen tutors’ consciousness of education, and improve the incentive and restraint mechanism and stimulate the endogenous power of tutors to cultivate high-level talents.

Key words: tutor team construction, foster character and civic virtue, evaluation indicator system