The postgraduate is the main power of our countries’ senior talents. The future development of China is closely related to the quality of postgraduate education. Therefore, this paper makes a discussion on the mode of Chinese postgraduate training, mainly analyses the problems and shortcomings that existing in the present postgraduate training mode and emphasizes the importance and practical significance of graduate education. The paper analyses on the civil engineering, including the target of postgraduate education and the key factors to improve the quality of the postgraduate training, and puts forward some suggestion about postgraduate training mode which adapt to China’s society and economic development.