With the popularization of higher education in China and diverse functions of the higher education, the orientation of training application-oriented talents has been gradually established in local colleges and universities. In recent years, the environmental protection industry has increasing demand for application-oriented environmental engineering talents. Therefore, we established an innovative training mode called “2+1+0.5+0.5” to constitute an application-oriented training system from aspects of teaching and teachers’ quality. We also collected feedback information from employers to constantly improve the talent training mode.