Abstract: Public health is very important for the health of Chinese people and is the component of the policy package of health and welfare of China. The talent of public health is cultivated mostly by undergraduate education on public health and preventive medicine. It is extremely important for the undergraduate education to design a scientific curriculum system. It is proposed that five challenges should be faced with five major new concepts in order to fulfill the cultivation on the undergraduate personnel training for building of public health system in China in the new age. Five strategies for the optimization of curriculum system were developed to promote the high-quality development of undergraduate public health personnel training. It includes the design of a scientific, comprehensive, practical, innovative and characteristic curriculum.

Key words: Undergraduate education, Personnel training on public health, Curriculum system, Teaching reform