The proposal of the overall national security concept has not only brought new and severe challenges to the national intelligence work, but also pointed out the direction for breaking through the development dilemma of intelligence work. In the national security and development strategy of the new era, the intelligence work should shoulder the new historical mission, abandon traditional intelligence thought reasonably, and establish new intelligence thought based on the overall national security concept, so as to give full play to the role of "leader""leading""eyes and ears""pioneers" "advisers". Starting with the seven important opportunities for the emergence of new intelligence thought, this paper analyzes the new requirements of the overall national security concept for the reform of intelligence thought, and points out that intelligence thought cannot be limited to any traditional intelligence thought in intelligence reconnaissance thought, people's intelligence thought, scientific and technological intelligence thought and small intelligence thought. Finally, it puts forward five typical new thought of national intelligence work in the new era, namely big data intelligence thought, big intelligence thought, overall national intelligence thought, open intelligence thought and bottom line thought of intelligence based on the overall national security concept.