The Qiangji program is a pilot project started in 2020, aiming to reform the enrollment and cultivation of talents of the basic disciplines. Chemistry as one discipline of the program plays an important role in the selection and cultivation of top innovative talents, actively meeting the strategic needs of the country. The program of chemistry would develop an education mode based on the fundamental chemistry with the consideration of engineering. The program would be featured by the cultivation of top innovative talents with both solid fundamental knowledge and excellent practical innovation capability. This paper comprehensively introduces the thinking, research and strategies of the first-year program of chemistry in Shanghai Jiao Tong University in terms of orientation, feature, education objectives and teaching system construction. This paper and the practice in Shanghai Jiao Tong University provide the theoretical and practical basis for the further success of the Qiangji program.

The applied chemistry major of Xi'an Jiaotong University adheres to undergraduate education, emphasizes the intersection of science and engineering, and strives to construct a first-class applied chemistry major. By innovatively teaching students in all aspects, including subject orientation, talent training concept, curriculum and teaching material reform, teacher team construction, and teaching and research integration, it has cultivated the leading talents with strong patriotism, solid scientific and mathematical foundation, in-depth interdisciplinary, outstanding innovation ability, and the ability to inherit the "westward relocation spirit".

To construct the first-class applied chemistry major of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, the talent training mode with solid foundation and practice, balanced general education and major education, and diversified output has been established. We focus on optimizing and reforming the main elements of students' cultivation such as curriculum, teaching resources, teachers, practice, and quality assurance, so as to meet the needs of students' lifelong development, to construct the structure of students' knowledge, ability and quality, and to cultivate the high-quality talents of science-engineering integration in applied chemistry major with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics and labor.

After more than 60 years of development and construction, the applied chemistry major in Central South University has formed a multidisciplinary direction with non-ferrous metal resource chemistry as the main feature through multi-disciplinary cross integration, and it has some features in the region of functionalized materials. That is based on the school's metallurgical, materials and medical superior disciplines. This article introduces the main measures and effects of the comprehensive reform of this major from the aspects of subject inheritance, talent training model, teaching system, curriculum construction, teaching team construction, and teaching assurance; the feature and characteristic are set up; the plan for the next major construction and reform is also put forward.

Making great efforts to train innovative talents is the priority of human resource development in universities, and the science majors in engineering colleges should rapidly perfect the cultivation mode of innovative talents conforming to their own characteristics. The paper discusses the cultivation mode of inter-disciplinary and innovative talents in the province first-class major of materials chemistry at Harbin Institute of Technology. We develop a novel talent training model with engineering characteristics by carrying out a series of measures such as teaching reform, strengthening practice, classified cultivation, forming an innovative talent training model with the characteristics of combining science and technology.

The applied chemistry major at Xijing University is selected for provincial first-class undergraduate major construction. This paper mainly introduces the exploration and practice of this major in application-oriented universities under the background of "double first-class" in recent years. The reform methods mainly include the adjustment of professional training objectives, teaching team construction, curriculum construction, teaching reform, practice teaching system and its basement construction. This paper can provide a reference for the first-class undergraduate major construction in local undergraduate institutions.

Upon the new requirements of emerging engineering education and the university positioning of "profession and localization", a new talent training model for undergraduate was developed with the integration of science and technology with the cooperation of school-enterprise. Systems were also constructed for the professional practice ability training and educational quality control. Meanwhile, the project for faculty was carried out successively with the improvement of teaching capability and "double teacher" training. Innovation practice as well as course ideology and politics were explored in education practice.

With the Chinese economy moving toward new industries and new economies, some problems appear in talent training. The students' value orientation and work options cannot meet the actual expectation. The training of talents cannot meet the requirement of new technologies and new industries. The mode of cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talents for applied chemistry in local universities is studied based on "Three Circles Theory". The collaborative education model of "Three Circles" have been produced after the completed analysis of students' value orientation, ability and resource requirements for different period, the support carrier and stakeholders. The "capability circle" is promoted with the "value circle" as the foundation and "support circle" as the key. The function of 1 + 1 + 1 > 3 is reached. The mode will be useful as references for talent training and professional development of local universities.

In response to the new development trend of the petrochemical industry, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, a large number of petrochemical companies, including PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, HENGLI Petrochemical, and SHENGHONG Petrochemical, have begun to transform and upgrade, and a new generation of "integrated" and "smart" refineries emerge. At the same time, emerging information technology has begun to be deeply integrated into the petrochemical production process, and the degree of integration and intelligence of petrochemical enterprises has increased significantly. As a major in applied chemistry of Liaoning Petrochemical University, which has closely served the petrochemical industry for more than 43 years, it has synchronized the standard industry upgrade path and actively carried out "Five Combinations" (professional and political, school and enterprise, internal and external, science and engineering, new and old) talent training model construction. After several years of exploration and practice, the "Five Combinations" talent training model has achieved good practical results. This study takes the applied chemistry majors of typical places and petrochemical industry universities as examples. After the form and connotation of the industries served by the key research majors have changed, how the majors should be related to the training process, curriculum system, and teaching content, and how the coordination should be adjusted to adapt to the new changes in the enterprise's demand for talents.

Owing to the cultivation international talents meeting Chinese oil and gas exploration and development, as well as "The Belt and Road" strategy, the applied chemistry specialty of Xi'an Shiyou University, relying on the first-class doctoral program in petroleum and natural gas engineering and the first-class master program in chemistry, has formulated and implemented the professional training program according to emerging engineering education (3E) project and characterized by petroleum and petro-chemical engineering. The specialty construction is mainly based on building the "golden course" in professional core course, and we create curriculum groups designated for engineering issues, merging course ideology and politics. Importantly, we pay attention to teacher team construction, increase the percentage of dual-qualified teachers gradually, and deepen the integration of basic chemistry and professional teachers with special backgrounds. Furthermore, we have established 9 experimental practice teaching platforms and 5 training bases based on interdisciplinary integration of related disciplines, promoting innovation and entrepreneurship education, and deepening cooperation with industrial enterprises, universities and institutes. Fortunately, we have comprehensively improved the quality of talents cultivation and the level of specialty construction. In 2020, the applied chemistry specialty has been approved as the provincial first-class specialty construction, holding specialized and advantageous subjects at oil and gas field chemistry in western China.

After more than 20 years of continuous reform and practice, combined with the running orientation of our university and the mission of talent training, based on building morality and cultivating people, the major of applied chemistry of Northwest A & F University has formed the professional feature of "overlapping with agriculture and forestry disciplines and dominated by the study of chemical constituents of biological resources in Qinba Mountain Area", established a talent training system of "the connection of undergraduate and graduate training, the integration of industry, university, and research, and the intersection of chemistry and agriculture & Forestry", and constructed a novel curriculum teaching system suitable for the major development. Herein, we thoroughly expound the measures and the achievements of applied chemistry major in several aspects, such as the exploration and construction of talent training mode, the reform and construction of curriculum teaching system, the construction and cultivation of teaching staff, the design and construction of ideological and political curriculum.

After years of development and construction, the applied chemistry major of Zhejiang Sci-tech University has formed distinct characteristics. In this paper, the measures and results of the construction of the first-class applied chemistry major have been summarized from the aspects of optimizing the curriculum system, cultivating high-quality talents, strengthening the construction of teaching, forming school-enterprise collaborative education mechanism, and improving the quality assurance system.

Facing the national maritime power strategy and the needs of green ship development, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology has established the 'Chem+' discipline group with chemistry as the core. It aims to cultivate complex innovative talents urgently needed in the field of green ships, through the guidance of ship spirit and interdisciplinary integration of chemistry, environment, energy and materials. Multiple collaborative reconstruction of 'Chem+' talent training system and "Toward Deep Blue" series of golden courses are conducted to cultivate students' green concept, innovation ability and industry literacy and realize deep integration of knowledge teaching, ability training and value shaping, forming a distinctive feature of ship and ocean engineering. 'Chem+' has achieved remarkable results in discipline construction and inter-disciplinary innovative talent training, forming a series of experiences. Relevant results have played a demonstration and leading role in the characteristic construction of applied chemistry and new engineering discipline reform.

Under the background of normal professional certification, based on the reform and revision of the talent training program for chemistry (normal) specialty of grade 2020 at the School of Materials, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Hangzhou Normal University, this paper reexamines the problems existing in the training program of chemistry normal specialty, from the aspects of constructing the corresponding matrix of "training objectives-graduation requirements" and "graduation requirements-curriculum system", optimizing the professional curriculum and strengthening experimental and practical teaching. The goal is to summarize and refine the characteristics of chemical education personnel training centered on students' development, and continuously promote the construction of chemical normal specialty.

Under the background of new normal education, the chemistry normal major of Yancheng Teachers University focuses on the normal specialty certification of ordinary colleges and universities and the construction of first-class undergraduate specialty, promotes the connotation construction of new normal education, and forms distinct professional characteristics and advantages. This paper combs the path and effectiveness of the construction of first-class normal specialty from the aspects of professional characteristics, normal specialty certification and comprehensive reform, reflects on the professional construction, and points out the direction of continuous improvement.

Based on the concept of "Student-Centered, Outcome-based Education, Continuous Quality Improvement" for teacher certification, taking the chemistry major of Ludong University as an example, the measures and achievements of first-class professional construction in several aspects are introduced, such as the orientation of training objectives, the construction of curriculum system, the reform of teaching modes, the construction of curriculum politics, the cultivation of practical teaching ability and the improvement of teaching evaluation. The direction of continuous improvement is proposed.

The disciplines, majors, and courses are presently independent in most of the local colleges and universities, which makes it difficult to improve the quality of talent cultivation. In response to this phenomenon, the integrated construction of disciplines, majors and courses was carried out. A "Three All-round" scientific research and teaching collaboration education ecosystem based on mentors, teams, platforms, and training programs has been constructed, by tapping the advantages of regional characteristics and benchmarking "Double First Class", "Emerging Engineering Education" and "Double Ten Thousand Plan" under the background of co-construction and regional industry-university-research joint education. A national first-class major in applied chemistry has been established to cultivate compound innovative talents.

The applied chemistry major is primarily associated with engineering and integration of sciences and technologies. Based on the needs of industrial development, this major actively serves the national and regional economic development, develops the characteristic direction of fine chemical industry, electrochemical engineering and polymer chemical industry, and forms the distinctive training characteristics of new engineering talents with a strong foundation and strong practical application. This paper comprehensively introduces the measures and results of the specialty orientation, training characteristics, construction of teaching staff, construction of practical teaching system and school-enterprise cooperation in education.

Owing to the rapid development of new industries, new technologies and new forms of business, the chemistry specialty of Guangxi University is reformed according to emerging engineering education (3E) project, and featured with close combination with local economic and social development. In this paper, the specialty of chemistry actively explores the combination of "science and education", "the base of the master", and "school enterprise" via the revision of the professional training program. The course content is reformed, and the characteristic talent training is emphasized, which is of guiding significance for characteristic direction construction of chemistry specialty with 3E concepts.

Based on the background of "emerging engineering education" and "first-class majors", we focused on solving the problems of the ability and quality cultivation of applied chemistry undergraduates in laboratory teaching. According to the characteristics and advantages of applied chemistry major in Central South University, we had a goal-oriented educational reform in laboratory teaching system, teaching contents and teaching methods. As a result, we had constructed a new all-round, multilevel, and three-dimensional laboratory teaching system in applied chemistry, and this innovative practice teaching system has achieved good teaching effects.

Owing to the outdated content and one-sided assessment method in the comprehensive experimental course of applied chemistry, the development of students' innovative ability and independent learning is limited. In this article, the course is systematically designed based on the OBE (Outcome-based education) concept to solve these problems. Firstly, the innovative experimental projects are designed by integrating teachers' achievements in scientific research. Hence, the students will experience the frontier and innovative technology in a scientific way. Secondly, some design, exploring and challenging projects are carried out during teaching and learning process to stimulate students' learning interest and self-learning awareness. And through these projects, students' innovative ability and scientific spirit are cultivated. Thirdly, the process assessment is highlighted, and the outcome-oriented assessment mode is as well as established to evaluate the achievement of course objectives. Eventually, the teaching scheme is optimized and expected to promote the development of the ability-oriented training mode in experimental course by applying the evaluation results of the course objectives achievement and the continuous improvement principle.

Faced with the first-class major construction of higher education in the new era, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, which is a local application-oriented university, relies on comprehensive experimental courses, national practice teaching base, industry-university-research cooperation, college students' discipline competition and other units in the process of national first-class applied chemistry major construction. The construction of a unique diversified innovation and entrepreneurship practice platform and talent training system provides a reference model for strengthening the development of disciplinary hierarchy and key construction in the first-class specialty construction, and improving the education quality of applied chemistry major.

Under the background of emerging engineering education, the applied chemistry major of Hefei University of Technology has realized the enhancement of the engineering innovation ability of the applied chemistry major and met the society's demand for applied chemistry professionals through the adjustment of professional training objectives, curriculum system, teaching content, teaching mode, and construction of the teaching staff. The practice provides guidance for the transformation and upgrading of traditional majors with the concept of emerging engineering education.

Participation in academic competition is an effective way to cultivate undergraduates' innovative thinking consciousness. It plays a very important role in cultivating and improving students' innovative thinking ability and practical ability. From the aspect of the undergraduates, this paper introduces the training of their innovative thinking and practical ability through participation in "national university student social practice and science contest on energy saving and emission reduction". The background of the competition, team building, determination of the topic, implementation process and perception of the students are introduced.

In order to further cultivate the research and teaching abilities of normal students, this article is based on the teaching concept of "one core, three stages and six links", and a mixed teaching model of "flip + segmentation" is adopted. Teachers and students prepare learning resources together, students learn independently before class, explain in sections, interactive communication and teaching exploration in class, evaluation and basic teaching ability training after class. This paper shows in detail the teaching process of the synthesis of ethyl acetate catalyzed by FeCl₃·6H₂O. Practical results show that pre-class teaching can significantly promote normal students' understanding and mastery of the experimental content, make full use of the experimental waiting period, and promote the improvement of normal students' ability of teaching and research and teaching reform. Simultaneously, the after-school session is conducive to improving the ability of normal students in curriculum design, classroom organization, language expression and multimedia applications.

Outstanding engineer cultivation is the core objective of emerging engineering education. In view of the problems in the current laboratory practice of chemical engineering principles, Jiangnan University explores laboratory teaching reform of chemical engineering principles from the perspective of emerging engineering education, which aims to intensify the combination of imparting knowledge and educating people. This new laboratory teaching system lays a foundation for the cultivation of chemical outstanding engineers with high research and innovation ability, engineering practice ability, sense of social responsibility and international vision.

In Northeastern University, the reform of inorganic chemistry course has been focused on the educational function of the classroom teaching, which tightly combines the knowledge learning, ability cultivation and quality improvement. In the construction of teaching system, guided by the idea of "firm, broad, deep and interactive", the classroom teaching contents are broadened, the inter-disciplinary scientific knowledge is introduced, the theory learning is integrated with practice, and the ideological and political elements are also combined. With respect to the teaching method, the split classroom is combined with the PBL mode, as a result, roles of teachers and students in the classroom are exchanged, and the students' active self-learning ability is promoted. Furthermore, the bilingual classroom is also employed, which significantly broaden the students' international vision. The applications of MOOC of inorganic chemistry endow the abundant online learning function, based on which the hybrid teaching mode is also practiced. In addition, the course of inorganic experiments is also improved by reforming the testing method in order to ensure the training objectives involving learning new knowledge and ability. Generally speaking, through improving the teaching system and innovating the teaching mode, the teaching effects of the course have been effectively enhanced, which lay a good chemistry foundation for the students major in science and engineering, and cultivate the chemical thinking habit, and practice the idea of "Three" education.

Aiming at the problem of the lack of knowledge reorganization ability of chemistry teachers, a bilingual course of General Chemistry is offered to chemistry normal students at Changchun Normal University. Following the goal of integrating professional knowledge and professional English, this course is set as a "bridge course" between professional learning and middle school teaching ability. Under the guidance of the core concepts of the subject, the course contents are reconstructed. Based on an online and offline collaborative and interactive teaching model, a learning-oriented full-process evaluation system is constructed. Students' core literacy and comprehensive ability in the application of subject knowledge have been improved.

With "integration of science and education" and "classified teaching" as the guidance, the differentiated teaching mode of analytical chemistry experiment was made to meet the needs of chemistry related majors in agricultural and forestry colleges. In order to stimulate students' interest in learning, the research results were transformed into innovative comprehensive experiments or designing experiments with the characteristics of agriculture and forestry, and the latest scientific research cases was timely integrated into classroom teaching. Teaching process was designed carefully to improve the pertinence and effectiveness. Additionally, the value of "integrating science and education" in analytical chemistry experiment is discussed.

The biochar was prepared by pyrolysis method, using different biomass as raw materials. By screening, peanut shell biochar was selected, and Fe₃O₄ magnetic material was loaded for treatment of tetracycline in water sample. The magnetic peanut shell biochar was characterized by scanning electron microscop (SEM), specific surface area analyzer (BET) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), and the adsorption kinetics, isotherm characteristics and various factors affecting the removal effect were studied. Through this comprehensive experiment, students can establish the idea of "treating waste with waste", and master the method of preparing adsorbent using waste, material characterization technology and pollutant regulation methods. In addition, this experiment can improve students' awareness of innovation and the ability to apply what they have learned to solve practical problems.