Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.This new era is not another new era,but a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics.Grasping the basic features of the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics is helpful for estimating the historical position and time coordinates of China's development scientifically,and it's a necessary requirement of promoting the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.From the perspective of the evolution of principal contradiction facing Chinese society,The new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics has the following characteristics:the developmental characteristic of the unity of inheritance and innovation,the complexity characteristic of the concurrence of challenge and opportunity,the affinity to the people characteristic of servicing and depending on people,the stage characteristic of building dream and basing future,and the international characteristic of leading and exampling the world.