Pharmaceutical administration and regulation is one of the core courses for pharmacy major of higher education institutions in China. Integrating ideological and political education into this course is beneficial to further cultivate good legal awareness and professional ethics among pharmaceutical graduate students. This paper analyzes the focuses and challenging issues in carrying out ideological and political education in the teaching process of pharmaceutical management and regulations by means of literature review and questionnaire. In the integrating process, emphasis should be placed on improving the ideological and political qualities of teachers, taking graduate students as the main subjects, introducing more new elements of ideological and political education into the curriculum, exploring assessment systems and incentive mechanisms, improving teaching methods and enhancing the educational function.