Abstract: Abstract: Social work education started late in Chinese minzu universities, facing many problems in the process of development. The paper, with Hubei Minzu University as an example, analyzes the demands of society, students and disciplinary development, holding that the social work major in such universities should take initiative to meet the urgent needs of social development, students’ diverse development, and medium and longterm disciplinary development. In addition, it should respond to the training objectives, curricular system, teaching mode and methods so as to construct the demandbased talenttraining mode of social work major.

Key words:  demandbased, talenttraining of social work major, minzu university