International Talents Connect the “Belt and Road Initiative”: Roles, Demands and Strategies
XIN Yue-You1,2, NI Hao1,2
(1.Collaborative Innovation Center for Cooperation and Development for “Belt and Road Initiative”, Zhejiang University；2.College of Education, Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310028, China)
Abstract：International talents are the foundation for the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative and they serve the initiative as adviser, helper, policypromoter and projectimplementer. Without global leaders, hightech innovators, entrepreneurs, financial leader and social and cultural coordinators, it is hard to strengthen cooperation between the East and the West in terms of policy coordination, facilities connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration and peopletopeople bond. Facing the rising demands of international talents, governments, higher education institutions and the industry sector should develop synergistically, and formulate talents development plans and strategies reasonably. Higher education institutions should be responsible to cultivate more international talents to respond to the rising needs, especially in training special and interdisciplinary talents for the Belt and Road Initiative, and set up national scholarships for studying abroad. Governments need to first make full use of existing talents, and moreover to improve the mechanism of talents introduction and practice platforms, so as to reserve more talents for the Initiative. And all these efforts should be made towards the goal of promoting soft power of the Initiative.
2016, Vol. 10 
