In the new era, translation education faces new opportunities as well as unprecedented challenges. How to improve the quality of the translation talents’ cultivation and cultivate high-level translation talents, to meet needs of the times for translation talents and the higher requirements for the translation talents’ cultivation, is a topic that translation education must focus on in the process of serving the national strategy. In the cultivation of French translation talents, Nanjing University insists on the unity of upholding principles and innovation, takes its own traditions and advantages as the foundation, promotes development through reform and innovation, seeks “changes” in the “constancy”, and has explored a unique development path of translation talents’ cultivation. Unfolding relevant thinking based on the cultivation of French translation talents in Nanjing University, will help to promote the development of translation education in China and to make positive contributions.