Heroes are high-frequency words in people’s daily social life, and they are the focus of scholars in various fields. Starting from Marx’s materialist view of history and the people’s values, the Communist Party of China has highly affirmed the important role played by the masses in the historical development process of revolution, construction and reform with the category of heroes, and comprehensively constructed the people’s hero paradigm reflecting the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The people’s hero has both the characteristics of people and advancedness, inheritance and development, life and politics, times and history, reality and future, and it is the sublimation of the heroism view of the Communist Party of China for a hundred years based on the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. From the logical level of generation, the people’s hero is a new category constructed by the Communist Party of China on the basis of criticizing the traditional individualistic heroes of the Chinese nation and the western superheroes, and the people’s positive role in the historical development is highly affirmed by the hero’s title of the highest honor. The Communist Party of China not only criticized the traditional elitist individual heroism in the course of the century-old history, but also criticized the western superheroism on the basis of the people’s hero paradigm in the course of practice. On the one hand, it deeply revealed the worship of western-style divinity heroes and superheroes in the period of democratic revolution of the old type, and on the other hand, it criticized the influence of western superheroism on the construction of mainstream ideology with the people’s hero. The people’s hero is the refinement and sublimation of the historical role of the masses by the Communist Party of China, and it is a great innovation and development of Marx’s materialist historical view and mass view based on the practice of the new era. The paradigm of people’s hero is an important part of the spiritual lineage of the Communist Party of China, an important source of national spiritual hall and people’s spiritual home, of great value to the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and an important spiritual force to promote the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and socialist modernization. Therefore, in the new era we should adhere to the following aspects for the continuous development of the people’s hero paradigm: on the basis of deepening the study of the people’s hero paradigm to promote the heroic discourse with Chinese characteristics and tell a good story of China, display the image of China; on the basis of vigorously cultivating the culture of people’s heroes, to promote the construction of culture with Chinese characteristics and contribute more lasting spiritual and cultural strength to practical development; on the basis of increasing the recognition of people’s heroes to give full play to the strength of heroes with Chinese characteristics and shape a social atmosphere of respecting, defending, learning and loving heroes; on the basis of strengthening the education of people’s heroes to construct the mechanism of hero education with Chinese characteristics and make longer-term contributions to the continuation and promotion of the paradigm of people’s heroes in the new era.