Abstract: The promulgation of Compulsory Education Labor Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition) reflects that the state has attached great importance to labor education to a new height. The paper explores the origin and combs the development process of labor curriculum in primary and secondary schools before the founding of new China, from 1949 to 2012 and from 2012 till now. This paper comments on the value appeal of the labor curriculum in primary and secondary schools to keep pace with the times:the systematic opening of labor curriculum in primary and secondary schools is the inevitable requirement of Building Morality and cultivating people, the natural meaning of improving core literacy, and the proposition of the times to keep pace with the times. Some suggestions are put forward on the implementation of labor curriculum in primary and secondary schools:to take the curriculum standard as the key link, and grasp the orientation of labor curriculum; promote development in integration and activate the vitality of labor courses; put more emphasis on labor courses and practice in life.