Nowadays, China is in an important period of strategic opportunities for a new round of development. Urban-rural planning, the basis and blueprints for the development of urban and rural construction, is playing increasingly essential role. Also, the technical methods, policy specification as well as demands for talent of urban-rural planning should keep pace with times due to the characteristics of this subject, including integration, practicing and policy. Considering a series of changes, the teaching of urban-rural planning is also facing new challenges and requirements that we ought to change ideas, advance with the times as well as deepen the reform, in order to better adapt to the new situation and train qualified talents that specialized in urban-rural planning.