As an important component of the academic human resources of higher education，young teachers play a crucial role in actualizing of higher education’s strategic goals.In terms of the current situation of development among young teachers in higher education，a doctoral degree has been set as the professional threshold，and the number of employment is increasing steadily.According to the Adult Development Theory and Professional Career Management Theory，the development of young teachers in higher education may be divided into three stages，namely，the adaptive and survival stage；the capacity build-up stage；and the steady growth stage.Each stage holds the developmental goal orientation of adapting new role，building-up multi-facade academic capacity，and growth into a teacher with specialties，respectively.The development of young teachers features characteristics such as unpredictability，complexity，diversity，and non-linearity.Centered around the individual development of young teachers，devising supportive programs and perfecting reward mechanism tailored for the different stages aforementioned is the important path for enhancing the development of young teachers in higher education while fully respecting the rules of such development.