With the rapid development of steel structure industry, more and more steel structure talents are needed.However, in some regions, there is a strange phenomenon that it is difficult for some steel structure enterprises to hire professional talents while graduates of relative specialties cannot easily be employed.There are many reasons for this phenomenon.As one of the main cultivation channels, universities and colleges should pay attention to the integration of talents training object and industrial demand.Based on an investigation of talents demand in some enterprises in Kunming, and on a view of general applicationtype universities and colleges, the paper discussed on how to define the teaching target of steel structure course with combination to the industrial demand.The realization of applicationoriented talents training in steel structure teaching was also studied from the aspect of training students’ learning, practice and social abilities.