Labor education is an important part of the socialist education system with Chinese characteristics. The unique educational value of labor education should never be ignored. The engineering practice characteristics of higher education with industry characteristics urgently need to strengthen labor education. The development of labor education and carrying forward the spirit of model workers are highly consistent in achieving the goal of moral education. We should accurately grasp the connotation and value implication of the spirit of model workers in the new era, integrate the spirit of model workers in the new era into labor education, and give full play to the leading, educational and incentive role of the spirit of model workers. Combined with the education and teaching characteristics of colleges and universities with industry characteristics, we should improve and optimize the labor education from the aspects of students themselves, professional curriculum education, labor curriculum education and innovation and entrepreneurship education, build the labor education system in Colleges and universities, and cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, sports, beauty and labor.