Cultural self-confidence is an important part of the development of Chinese education. Only sufficient cultural confidence works in developing people's innovative thinking. Cultivating the graduate students' cultural self-confidence, is an important way of ideological education. This paper analyzes the reasons of the graduate students' lack of confidence and the manifestation and suggests that to build cultural self-confidence and strengthen the graduate students' education, are people's increasing needs of spiritual and cultural demands, and also the need of promoting economic and social development.