Abstract: The future high-quality development of light chemical industry in our country needs a large number of integrated talents in light chemical engineering who have solid basic professional knowledge, innovation consciousness and creative thinking. In order to realize the above-mentioned cultivating goals, it is essential to carry out the in-depth course teaching reform according to the discipline characteristics of light chemical engineering. Therefore, this article explores the teaching reform of scientific and technological progresses in light chemical engineering set by the major of light chemical engineering in Sichuan University, with the aim to improve the teaching quality and teaching effect.