The construction of New Liberal Arts is a new requirement for the education of humanities and social sciences in the new era. How to cultivate talents in economics under the concept of New Liberal Arts is an important subject in the construction of Chinese economics. This paper first explains the connotation of the construction of New Liberal Arts from the five characteristic dimensions of times， strategy， innovation， integration and development. Secondly， it discusses the main problems existing in the training of economic talents under the background of New Liberal Arts construction. Based on this， it is finally proposed that the training of economic talents should continue to optimize the training objectives and training programs of economics major， strengthen the ideological and political education of economics courses， promote the cross-integration of economics and other disciplines， promote the innovation of the training mode of economic talents and cultivate students’ ability to solve problems， so as to provide theoretical reference for the training of economic talents to adapt to the development of the new era.