This paper expounds the requirements of new era for the characteristic construction of university library,and advances some opinions on characteristic collection and characteristic service in the characteristic construction of university library.

The establishment of the spiritual culture in a new era should be conformed to the socialism market economy,and be a system of complete spirit,criterion and principle norm embodied in economy,politics and various fields of social life.

The 21st century is a brand-new era,and is also a knowledge economy era.

The paper explains the great importance of the research on the innovative talents of the new times,and explores the connotation of the new times:taking innovation as the age spirit,including peaceful and developing age,civilized ecosystem age,knowledge economy age,democratic and law-ruled age,creative culture age,and reform and opening age explored from multi-views.

It introduces design of municipal office center of Ningde, and searches municipal office building facing to new time from building harmonious development city、constructing high-efficiency system、modeling opening imagery and building environment based on people.

The ethical spirit of the new age with new content and meaning will show unique cultural charm and offer instruction and driving forces for structuring the harmonious society.

The ethic thought of rationality is constantly extending and deepening when the old times going into the new ones; meantime, the new times is characterized by the "humanity" and "knowledge".