Abstract. In the characteristic development of the application-oriented institutes, North China Institute of Science and Technology(NCIST) has always adhere to the safety in production and coal industry as the first service-oriented. After taking the construction of safety engineering discipline as a leader and designing and guiding discipline groups construction from the level of theoretical and conceptual, system, structural and mechanism, it has formed the safety engineering discipline groups, the soft science of safety discipline groups and the relative discipline groups. Advanced disciplines have become more remarkable by the construction of discipline groups and they have promoted the development of non-advanced disciplines to improve the core competitiveness of colleges and to make a useful exploration in the construction of discipline groups in characteristic development of application-oriented institutes.

Abstracts. North China Institute of Science and Technology surrounds "what kind of talents to cultivate" and "how to cultivate them", which are both essence and core of the cultivating talents, and then defines training objectives, directions and ideas through theoretical and empirical research. By optimizing the curriculum system and strengthening industry-learning-research education, NCIST builds the talent-cultivating models of application-oriented undergraduate college that is "three systems + two platforms + N modules + three levels + one development". A large number of characteristic applied-type talents have been trained to meet the needs of the development of economy and society.