Civil servants are the most active element in the national governance system,and the administrative ethics construction of this group is related to the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity.Since the reform and opening up,the construction of administrative ethics of civil servants in China can be divided into four stages:the emergence of ideas and renewed attention,the establishment of rules and regulations and gradual improvement,the clarification the main line and focus of morality,concentration and comprehensive advancement.These historical stages contain the characteristics of responding to the practical drive of modernization,the historical logic of inheriting and developing the excellent traditional official morality,and the dialectical development from a single abstraction to a comprehensive embodiment.In the new era,the construction of administrative ethics of civil servants in China still has shortcomings.In the future,the construction needs to be improved based on new era characteristics and the party building the new requirements by optimizing the structure of administrative ethics of civil servants,clarifying civil servants administrative ethics behavior selection,and determining the construction of civil servants administrative ethics relations to lay a foundation for building high-quality professional civil servants.