The construction of emerging engineering education puts forward new and higher level requirements for the training of engineering talents in colleges and universities. As a traditional engineering major, the civil engineering major needs to explore the reform of practical teaching system in this situation. Focusing on the connotation of emerging engineering education and the training goal of civil engineering, this paper explores the reform of the practical teaching system of civil engineering. Based on the analysis of the current situation of practical teaching, this paper reorganizes all kinds of experimental courses and practical training of the major, integrates the innovation concept of emerging engineering, forms four teaching modules/platforms which contain course experiment, centralized design, centralized practice, and innovation and entrepreneurship, and three levels of practical teaching containing basic cognition, comprehensive application, and research innovation, and constructs a practical teaching system of civil engineering with "one main line, four platforms and three levels", aiming to provide reference for the cultivation of innovative, cross and compound high-quality engineering and technical talents .