Abstract: In order to adapt to the regional social economic development and technological progress, it is an inevitable choice for application-oriented colleges and universities to build corresponding professional characteristics. It is also a requirement to ensure the employment rate of students and improve the quality of employment. This paper takes the selection of specialty characteristics and the construction of industry university research base as the research object, combines the experience of the construction of environmental specialty characteristics in our university, puts forward the ways to realize the construction of specialty characteristics and the improvement of application ability, and points out that the construction of specialty characteristics is not unchanging, and should be coordinated with economic and social development to maintain its vitality forever.

Key words: Industry-university-research, Base, Professional features, Regional economy, Applied specialty, Advantage