Eternal great cause, talent first. Throughout the century long history of struggle, the CommunistParty of China has always attached importance to training, uniting, leading, achieving talents, and unitingand supporting talents in all aspects to make contributions to the cause of the Party and the people. Toenhance the core competitiveness of morden enterprises, it is necessary to firmly establish the awarenessthat “talent is the first resource”, attach importance to the selection and employment work, and we mustconstantly strengthen and optimize the selection and ability work. This paper systematically reviewsthe ancient typical theoretical viewpoint of “observing people”, summarizes the theoretical viewpoint ofcadre and talent identification from the three perspectives: individual factors, relationship factors andperformance ability, fully combines the ancient theories with practical practice, and helps build a team ofhigh-quality cadres and talents.