Abstract: The cultivation of excellent nursing professionals is an important guarantee of competent human resources essential to the implementation of the national strategy of Healthy China initiative. In the face of the health needs of the whole life cycle and the nursing development driven by emerging technologies, the training of excellence nursing professionals is confronted with new requirements and challenges. In order to cope with the new demands at home and abroad for the training of high-quality nursing staffs, meet the needs for health services that are based on precision, the whole population, the whole life cycle, and individualized care in the new era, and cultivate outstanding nursing staffs with clinical critical thinking skills, nursing decision-making skills, innovative research and practice ability, whole life cycle nursing knowledge and skills, and the ability to keep pace with the times, we wrote this paper to help clarify the needs and challenges of training excellent nursing staffs in China. Herein, taking "precision nursing of health and disease in the whole life cycle" as the core and utilizing the personnel training principle of emphasizing foundation, strengthening ability, improving quality, and promoting personality, we elaborated on the construction of the training model of excellent nursing staffs and suggested that efforts should be made in the following areas, setting up training objectives with a scientific orientation, setting up in a targeted way the knowledge system and the curriculum system, organizing the teaching mode reform into different types and implement them accordingly, making innovations in instructional methodology, and building up high-level teaching faculties. We explored for a path for training excellent nursing talents, a path that has Chinese characteristics and that can be further developed in a sustainable way, which will lay the foundation for attaining the strategic goal of Healthy China initiative.