The “new model for human advancement” is a category in Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, featuring great originality and distinctiveness. From the perspective of its formation mechanism, the “new model for human advancement” is a new civilization accumulated and formed in the historical process of adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is a new civilization generated simultaneously in the process of creating a path of Chinese-style modernization. It transcends the “old civilization” of capitalism and creates a new civilization in the process of human modernization. From the perspective of the innovation logic, the “new model for human advancement” endows socialism with Chinese characteristics with a unique civilizational connotation, highlights the profound civilizational heritage of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and demonstrates the cultural consciousness and cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation in the history of the development of human civilization. From the perspective of theoretical contributions, the “new model for human advancement” reveals the fundamental way of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times through “the two combinations”. Through “the revolution of terminology”, it adds new elements and theoretical content of the times to the treasure- house of Marxist theory, promotes the transformation of Marxism with Chinese characteristics into universalizing Marxism, and realizes the theoretical promotion of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times.