Carbon fiber industrial cluster is the key development field of Jilin City's development strategy currently. In this study, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, a high-level application-oriented university with characteristics in Jilin Province, was taken as an example to explore the talent cultivation strategy in the field of carbon fiber materials in combination with the demand of local economic and social development for talents. On the basis of analyzing the problems in the talent training of application-oriented colleges and universities, a series of measures are put forward from the aspects of talent training program, curriculum system setting, teaching mode reform, school-enterprise cooperation and so on.