Research on the Cultivation of International Talents in Colleges and Universities in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative

Internationalization of higher education is conducive to optimizing the structure of international talents and enhancing China's international competitiveness. With the advent of the big data era and the proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative, there have been many new proposals for the internationalization of talent training in higher education, bringing new opportunities, challenges and requirements to talent training in Chinese universities. With a sober understanding of the new situation, universities should make efforts to cultivate international talents who are able to adapt to the new situation based on big data analysis. This paper mainly adopts the literature method and the method combining practice and theory. The author consulted quantities of relevant literature, collected and organized the big data, and paid attention to the news about talent cultivation related to the Belt and Road Initiative and the relevant new policies. First, this paper gives an overview of the international talent cultivation in colleges and universities and the current background of the times. Then, this paper presents the opportunities and challenges for the international talent cultivation in China under the background of Belt and Road. Finally, based on the analysis of the status quo and deficiencies of the international talent cultivation in colleges and universities, the author puts forward four countermeasures, namely, optimizing the management model of international students, setting the concept of international courses, instituting minority language courses, and establishing a sense of internationalization in colleges and universities in Western China. It is hoped that this paper can have a certain research reference for the cultivation of international talents in universities.