Abstract: Cooking and nutrition education is an application-oriented undergraduate major with equal emphasis on theory and practice. In the current era of "healthy China", it needs to shoulder more social responsibilities. Therefore, Yangzhou University, as the only national first-class undergraduate specialty construction point, needs to combine the background of the times in the specialty construction and development, provide the professional development paradigm, and endow it with sociality, culture and innovation on the basis of the combination of theory and practice. This paper provides suggestions on the construction, development and safeguard measures of this major.

Key words: Healthy China, Cooking and nutrition education, Specialty construction and development