Abstract: Pharmaceutical students in the new era need to have four core competencies: “knowledge of medicine”, “research of medicine”, “pharmaceuticals” and “medication”. However, the current curriculum system is not well tailed to the learning of core competency by students, the lack of a practical teaching environment integrated virtual environment with reality, and the imperfect mechanism of production-education collaboration are the factors that restrict the effective training of pharmacy students' core competency. So it is necessary to encourage diversified development, to build a curriculum system for cultivation of students' core competencies, concentrate resources for win-win results, create a practical teaching environment that integrates virtual with reality, policy guidance to establish a production-education collaboration mechanism, so as to support the building of core competencies by pharmacy students.

Key words: Pharmaceutical student, Core competence, Influencing factors, Cultivation path