University labor education is an essential pathway for implementing the fundamental task of moral education and cultivating socialist builders and successors who are well-rounded in virtues, intelligence, fi tness, aesthetics, and labor. This study adopts a value-oriented, problem, and practice-oriented approach, using Marx 's perspective on the intrinsic value relationship between "labor and humanity" to raise fi ve questions regarding university labor education and college students' comprehensive development. From the perspectives of labor creating humanity, labor confi rming and manifesting human essence, and labor being the driving force behind human historical development, i t seeks to clarify the value of labor education and college students’ development. It also re-examines the appropriateness of how education interconnects with the other four aspects of education. Further, it refl ects on practical challenges such as overcoming "alien" in labor education and advocating for integrated advancement. The study also raises issues related to the right to labor happiness based on confi rming and manifesting humanity's essential capacities through labor. From the perspective of labor promoting human social progress, it is essential to recognize that creative labor education is a necessity of our time. From the strategic layout of "t hree fi rsts" in science and technology, talent, and innovation at the national level, it emphasizes the importance of strengthening creative labor education and value guidance regarding "talent-scientifi c and technological innovation-development" in universities.