Abstract: China is the largest engineering training country in the world. In February, “New Engineering” was put forward, indicating the direction of development for higher engineering education. The level of hi-tech industrialization is rising in recent year in Yunnan. It’s a historical demand to untangle the industrial education situation from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China and to reexamine the strategy of “new engineering” development. The paper tries to explore “new engineering” security elements from the three aspects of economy, system and manpower. We'd come to the conclusion by emphasizing the coherence of education and promoting the Socialization in “new engineering” area. In the end, we can develop “new” industry, “new” University, “new” manpower of Yunnan through all these actions. It is also the way to realize the dream of powerful province for Yunnan.

Key words: Yunnan province, “new engineering”, industry, industry education