The fundamental task of higher vocational colleges is to put the core values of education through the whole process of skilled personnel training, and cultivate craftsmen with both ability and political integrity. By summing up the current situation of the cultivation of craftsmen in higher vocational colleges, this paper analyzes the problems of the cultivation of craftsmen in higher vocational colleges, and puts forward some suggestions to pay more attention to the cultivation of craftsmen; To explore a new model of craftsman training. This is not only of great significance to grasp the opportunity brought by the "double high" plan, enhance the core competitiveness of higher vocational college graduates and realize the transformation and development of higher vocational colleges, but also contribute to the smooth transition of China to "China Intelligent Manufacturing".