The essence of education is to cultivate people with morality. It is not only the task of ideological and political courses to cultivate the correct world outlook, personal outlook and values of contemporary youth. All professional courses should be closely organized. It is urgent to integrate ideological and political elements into the professional courses of Principles of Communications. The current hot topics are introduced into the classroom content, and the ideological and political topics are subtly introduced into the Principles of Communications course by stages and steps. The teaching methods and means in and out of class are reformed, the process assessment of students' performance are strengthened, and the students' ability of experiment, simulation and practice are improved，establishing an innovative practice system of "basic-ideological and political-complex-innovation" to cultivate the spirit of craftsmanship while establishing a sense of social responsibility and national pride. With the integration of ideological and political elements as the goal, teaching reform as the way, practice as the testing mean, the goal of integrating value shaping, knowledge impart and ability cultivation is achieved, and the new situation of the development of application-oriented universities is created