Abstract: With the evolution of national security concept, the national defense education has experienced three major transition. Security concept has dominated the main connotation and anticipated goal of the national defense education. China's new security concept objectively put forward the requirements on the national defense education innovation. Under the new security concept, concept of national defense education should take concept innovation as the starting point and clear goal education; take the connotation of the innovation as the fundamental and expand education idea; take the content of the innovation as the basement and optimize the education function; take the practice of the innovation as guarantee and carry out the education forms, so as to consolidate the national security of mass base.