Abstract: During his over 70-year educational practice, Mr. Dai Anbang of Nanjing University put forward the “Thought on Comprehensive Chemistry Education”, forming a complete system of educational concepts. This article outlines the essence and core implementation path of Mr. Dai Anbang’s educational thought, and further illustrates the specific practice of Mr. Dai Anbang’s educational thought in the discipline of chemistry at Nanjing University through the reform and innovation of constructing the knowledge system and teaching content, strengthening the experimental teaching, and promoting the general education, etc. It also analyzes the contemporary significance of Mr. Dai Anbang’s educational concept of “realizing the all-round development of people” in terms of orientation of talent cultivation goals, construction of educational systems and content, innovation of educational and teaching methods, improvement of educational evaluation as well as evolution of educational reform directions, and clearly points out that his thought on comprehensive chemical education will continue to have an important influence with the development of the times.

Key words: Dai Anbang, Thought on Comprehensive Chemistry Education, Implementation path, Specific practice, Contemporary significance