Abstract Based on the understanding of connotation and important values of the curriculum system construction in colleges, this paper analyzed the current situation of curriculum system construction of chemical engineering in colleges, and proposed five changes to enhance the curriculum system construction of chemical engineering, including that the ideas of education should be changed to the student-oriented idea to promote the self-actualization of each student, the curriculum settings should be integrated to accomplish the integration of the subject curriculum, the curriculum selection should be multiplex to optimize students' knowledge structure, the content of courses should be multi-level to pay attention on the integrity and systematicness of study, and the curriculum evaluation should be scientific to reflect the predominant roles of students.