Hua Jiang

The research studies the results of implementing the Belt and Road Initiative in the education system of the People’s Republic of China and the countries of the initiative area. The authors present the results of the analysis of the development of educational cooperation with the countries divided by territorial principle according to the criteria “the number of students from the areal countries” and “the number of Confucius Institutes and Cabinets” (in the context of the development of soft power of China’s external influence). The authors investigate the perspectives of coordination in the field of educational policy and analyze the regulatory legal acts defining the key directions for the development of the Belt and Road Initiative at different levels of the education system. Moreover, the authors analyze the publication activity and current situation on managing the convergence of international students from the countries along the area of the Belt and Road Initiative. The need to organize technical maintenance of the project in the countries along the route actualizes the task of unifying the quality of professional training of foreign personnel participating in the project (according to forecasts, at least 420 thousand people by 2030). The authors prove that the countries located in the area of the Belt and Road Initiative have enormous human, intellectual, natural, cultural, and historical potential, including in the context of implementing educational strategy on the example of the countries of the Maritime Silk Road area of the Belt and Road Initiative in the field of higher education. A case study of Harbin Polytechnic University within the scope of the stated research topic is examined.