ABSTRACT: Human resource is an important factor in promoting economic growth and the most important wealth of every enterprise and even a country. As an important method of improving human resources, human resource development is constantly facing new challenges with the change of the times and advances in technology. This article believes that the challenges faced by human resource development in the new era mainly come from the following three aspects: 1. The technological progress brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution has challenged the way of human resource development; 2.Challenges caused by changes in the human resources development environment caused by the new normal of human resources that accompany the new normal of China’s economy; 3. The changes in China’s population and labor structure have brought challenges to the changes in the structure, quantity, and characteristics of the target population for human resource development.

Keywords: new era; human resource development; current status; challenges