The colleges of applied technology belong to the higher vocational education system, which has the natural characteristics of running colleges integrated with the local economy. Teachers' practical ability in these colleges presents the characteristics of skill operability, teaching practicability, and applied design ability to meet the teaching needs of different levels, but this ability is faced with difficulties influenced by factors such as the training paradigm of subject-based talents in undergraduate education, the structural deficiency of teachers' team construction, and the poor mechanism of interaction and mutual benefit between colleges and locality. Colleges are supposed to coordinate and consolidate the competitive resources of colleges, governments and enterprises, and jointly construct a four-in-one training system for teachers-courses, projects, platforms and mechanisms-to promote teachers' practical ability,in accordance with the principles of meeting the ruling needs of regional economy and social development, adapting to the trend in development of colleges and industries, and being suitable for the cultivation of teachers' practical ability.