The world we witness today is moving towards ever-intensifying “globalization.”1301950 Such realistic experiences as “global community of existence，” “global community of shared knowledge，” “global community of communication” and “global community of common destiny” have helped shape people’s awareness of global “coexistence” and “sharing.” Notions of “common threats” and “anxiety over survival” arising from real-world circumstances have turned “non-traditional security，” closely related to “low politics，” into a concept which many countries deem to be vital. Since the advent of the 21^st century，people have seen how a concatenation of “non-traditional security crises，”1301951 ranging from the “9/11” terror attack，SARS，the global financial crisis，the nuclear cataclysm in Japan，the sustained riots in West Asia，North Africa and，particularly in Egypt，the terror blasts in Boston in the United States，the Snowden event to the shooting rampage at American naval headquarters，have created new terrors across the world. Accordingly，there have been growing concerns and serious reflections over those non-traditional security hazards. To gain a clear picture of the ongoing studies in international academia on non-traditional security and China’s own options for its security paradigm，we need to trace how the studies on this subject have originated and evolved. It is also necessary to evaluate different schools of Western theories on non-traditional security and how they have inspired Chinese scholarship in the field. By analyzing the value orientations of China’s own research on non-traditional security and its conceptual paradigms，I expect to demonstrate that “shared security” constitutes the core value of non-traditional security and to explore the necessity，possibility and feasibility of “shared security” as a security discourse which both epitomizes Chinese values and accords with the international context.