Based on the practice of optimizing training programmes for application-orientied talents in Zhujiang college of South China Agricultural University,this paper put forward four principles:maintaining the foundation,strengthening practice,fostering abilities and improving quality.Four optimizing models are also illustrated in this paper to realize the objective of training application-oriented talents and improve the quality of such talents,which includes updating the concept of education,optimizing the structure of curriculum,reforming the model of talent cultivation and pushing forward practical teaching.