Innovative talent training as an immense and complex system engineering matters the universities, governments and the whole social environment. Taking students’ perspective as the entry point, this paper focuses on the functions the university Counsellors play in the cultivation of innovative talents from students’ perspective. The purpose is to clarify to what degree students have so far understood the cultivation of innovative talents, and what’s the role of university counsellor in fostering the innovative talents from the students’ perspective. A questionnaire survey conducted among students show that it is important for university counsellors to participate in the innovative talent cultivation. With reference to pertinent literature, we build a framework system for the cultivation of innovative talents in colleges and universities, based on which, a thorough analysis is made on the role the university Counsellors should play in cultivating the innovative talents.