As a basic system of education, discipline catalogue system plays an irreplaceable role in discipline development and talent training in China. However, each catalog adjustment will always produce negative effects such as "lagging in specialty setting", "homogenization cultivation"" and "dilution of educational resources". The reasons are as follows: first, the catalogue adjustment cycle is too long to respond to social development immediately; Second, the decision-making power of the executive subject is limited, and the autonomy and enthusiasm are restrained. Therefore, the competent authorities should continue to deepen the reform of discipline catalogue management mechanism, strengthen the "release, management and service", and give more decisions-making power on the setting, review and "addition and removal" of disciplines and specialties to universities as the main body of implementation.