Moral Education First, the Cultivation of Key Abilities, and Comprehensive Development, Exploration and Practice of Innovative Talent Training System in Applied Chemistry

“Moral Abstract: After more than 20 years of continuous reform and practice, combined with the running orientation of our university and the mission of talent training, based on building morality and cultivating people, the major of applied chemistry of Northwest A & F University has formed the professional feature of “overlapping with agriculture and forestry disciplines and dominated by the study of chemical constituents of biological resources in Qinba Mountain Area”, established a talent training system of “the connection of undergraduate and graduate training, the integration of industry, university, and research, and the intersection of chemistry and agriculture & Forestry”, and constructed a novel curriculum teaching system suitable for the major development. Herein, we thoroughly expound the measures and the achievements of applied chemistry major in several aspects, such as the exploration and construction of talent training mode, the reform and construction of curriculum teaching system, the construction and cultivation of teaching staff, the design and construction of ideological and political curriculum.