Specialty construction is the requirement for universities to get adapted to social and economic development actively

to enhance their core competitiveness

and to train the high-quality talents with social adaptability and innovativeness.The specific measures

which are taken by East China Jiaotong University to meet the great demands for electronic information professionals with rail transit focus in china

and guided by CDIO pattern to improve the talent training quality

are introduced in this paper.Furthermore

the overall plan of electronic information engineering specialty construction in East China Jiaotong University is discussed

and a concrete analysis of the professional construction ideas and principles is also given.Finally

this paper designs a training model with rail transit characteristics

and gives a concrete exposition on the setting of the characterized training links.