In recent years, China has taken comprehensive actions in promoting the construction of curriculum-based ideological and political education in various universities as a starting point, and vigorously promoted the deep integration of ideological and political work and personnel training in universities. Taking the construction of the first-class curriculum group of civil engineering in Hohai University as an example, this paper expounds on the implementation of the curriculum group construction of civil engineering in the new era which serves the general goal of fostering virtue through education under the new situation of curriculum construction required by the concept of "recognizing, adapting and seeking for change". It introduces some novel ideas of ideological and political curriculum groups from the perspective of the major system, based on historical commonness and characteristics of the times, it also refers to the construction of 20 indicators concerning ideological and political education and a matrix system of major-curriculum relationship in ideological and political education. From the research progress in three levels of curriculum group, curriculum and classroom, the problem of "for whom to learn" is hereby solved. Meanwhile, promotion will also be made in ideological and political education in combination with professional certification and emerging engineering construction, which jointly solve the problem of "how to learn and what to learn". By interlinking the three parts, educating and teaching are well integrated, and some outstanding results have been achieved, which leads to significant radiation in universities across China and acquires full affirmation of the leaders in the Ministry of Education.