Aiming at the problems of low engineering literacy of some youth teachers of civil engineering specialty, the connotation of engineering literacy is described, and the present situation of youth teachers group working is introduced. The reasons of low engineering literacy of some youth teachers are analyzed from three aspects, such as the source of youth teachers, the rules and regulations of colleges and universities, and the main goals of enterprises. The necessity of developing youth teachers' engineering literacy is emphasized according to the engineering education development trend in China and other foreign countries, and the requirements of colleges and universities duties of service to the community. By the four roles "governments, colleges and universities, enterprises and youth teachers" linkage mode, long-term mechanism for the developing youth teachers' engineering literacy is advised, which is composed of the macroscopical policies and fiscal supports from governments, and the preferential policies in colleges and universities, including recruitment, achievement assessment, professional titles evaluation, selection and promotion of outstanding teachers, training ways, financial support, engineering literacy evaluation system and inspection, in additional, cooperation of "complementary advantages, mutual benefits, winning together" between enterprises and youth teachers should be carried out. At last, the effective measures and excellent achievements of developing youth teachers' engineering literacy in School of Civil Engineering of Guangzhou University are introduced as an example, which provide references for the relative colleges and universities.