There are some deviations between the direction of talents training in local colleges and the market demand in the adjustment of industrial structure, and the structural contradictions of higher education become more prominent. Combined with the requirements of Ministry of Education on undergraduate application-oriented transformation, application-oriented talents training of civil engineering should take full account of the level of regional economic development, market demand, and industrial structure and other actual situations, to construct a talents training model of "one body-two wings-three transformations", to promote the integration of production and education, strengthen employment innovation, and serve local economic development. The transformation of civil engineering talents training to innovative application and technical and skilled type can better meet the requirements of local economic development and talent market demands.