The progress of human labor plays a crucial role in economic and social development.Ecological labor,as a product of the development of human labor to a certain stage,is a new form of labor that follows the nature and laws of ecology,embodies the people's subjective position and ecological well-being,and is related to the progress of ecological civilization.Facing the modernization and construction of harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature,the basic theoretical and practical questions that academics have to answer in depth from a doctrinal point of view are:why ecological labor must be carried out,what is the meaning of ecological labor,and what is the development of ecological labor.Ecological labor is the inevitable trend of the historical evolution of labor forms,the inevitable direction of the concept of green development,and the inevitable direction of the green transformation of the development mode.It manifests the main qualities of benign material transformation between human beings and nature,the complementarity of social and natural productivity.The implementation of ecological labor should start from the following aspects:the cultivation of ecological literacy of labor subjects,the ecological change of labor materials,the ecological use of labor objects,and the ecological synergy of the labor system.