Abstract: Construction of new liberal arts refers to the process where humanities and social sciences cross-fuse with the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation to form a series of cross-disciplinary subjects and majors. Promoting the construction of new liberal arts requires the unity of “breaking” and “building”-breaking the solidified thinking of “liberal arts being useless” and the old barriers to disciplinary division of liberal arts development while promoting notable progress in construction of new liberal arts by forming a driving mechanism for the construction of new liberal arts, building the confidence that “liberal arts are useful”, establishing a new model of subject integration, strengthening the main body's capacity building, exploring endogenous power, gaining experience for liberal arts development, attaching importance to general education, advocating multiple development models, and reconstructing scientific evaluation systems, etc.

Key words: construction of new liberal arts, "breaking" and "building", evaluation system, scientific development