Abstract: At present, the society is facing a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform. Therefore, the Ministry of Education puts forward the new engineering construction. Xiamen Institute of technology, as one of the first batch of innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration universities of the Ministry of Education, has implemented reforms measures such as the training scheme of major engineering degree + minor entrepreneurship degree, school enterprise cooperative innovation and entrepreneurship experimental class, entrepreneurship incubator and international cooperative training, actively explored the cultivation of innovation and entrepreneurship ability of new engineering talents, and comprehensively improved the school running level and training quality of innovation and entrepreneurship talents.

Key words: New engineering, Innovation and entrepreneurship, Ability training