Practical teaching is a bridge for students of bridge engineering from theoretical study to practical production. Aiming at the problems of poor coherence, low efficiency and poor effect in traditional practical teaching of bridge engineering, the bridge engineering course group of School of Civil Engineering of Tongji University explores and constructs a new model of through-learning chain for multiple practical courses on the basis of years of practice and research. The model takes demand drive, potential stimulation and innovation orientation as the core, forming a teaching idea from learning and cognition to skill training and then to solving complex engineering problems. In this teaching chain, students’ course learning, virtual platform, production practice, paper research are layer through layer. Ideological and political teaching, national conditions practice, construction site, patent application, innovation and entrepreneurship are linked together, so as to improve the consistency of practical teaching of bridge engineering specialty, enrich the teaching content and improve the teaching effect.