Abstract: Based on guidelines and tasks for reform, development and categorized cultivation of postgraduate education in new era, and addressing issues such as severe phenomenon of convergence in postgraduate cultivation within existing agricultural engineering discipline, and need to improve educational mechanisms for science and education integration as well as industry and education integration, reform and practice of categorized cultivation mode for academic and professionaldegree postgraduates was done．With moral education and talent development as foundation, a new model for categorized postgraduate cultivation has been constructed．Guided by four orientations, a curriculum system for categorized postgraduate education has been developed．Supported by high-level mentor teams development, new approaches for cultivating postgraduates' knowledge innovation and practical innovation capabilities have been established, and a new mechanism for integrating education, science, industry and practice have been created．With aim of meeting national and regional innovation development needs, new quality evaluation standards for categorized postgraduate cultivation have been established．Educational and teaching practices have demonstrated that educational effectiveness and quality have significantly improved, and postgraduates' knowledge innovation and practical innovation capabilities have significantly enhanced, which has laid foundation for optimization and establishment of categorized postgraduate cultivation management system．