Abstract: As the water conservancy industry structure upgrading, the market demands for the technicians and management talents.It researches the talent cultivation mode of application-oriented university to meet the demand of the development of economy and water conservancy industry for skilled and applied water conservancy talents,which has become a subject for the vocational college sustainable development.By analyzing the operation post and typical tasks in water conservancy industry, it constructs the “Level-division, Individuation,Orientation” production-oriented talent cultivation mode and the “on-campus and offcampus, online and offline” alternating practice teaching system to provide beneficial reference for promoting talent cultivation quality.