Author(s)

Xingfeng Liu, Xiuhong Luo

Corresponding Author

Xingfeng Liu

Abstract

The initiative of “the Belt and Road” brings opportunities and challenges to the international development of rail transit vocational colleges. Taking Guangzhou Railway Polytechnic as an example, the framework of internationalization of Jane Knight’s educational theory is used to define five liquid factors such as the mobility of personnel, the flow of educational projects, and the flow of providers in the internationalization development of rail transit vocational colleges as well. In this paper, the motivations of internationalization are explained; the problems in the dimensions of five liquid factors are analysed, and the organizational strategies (“MOST” model of “management alliance, operation mechanism, support service and talent development”) and political strategies(“TTSA” model of talent cultivation, teaching staff, specialty construction and assistance training) are adopted to effectively explore the path of internationalization development of the Guangzhou Railway Polytechnic, providing a reference for the high-level education and talent highland of other rail transit vocational colleges, and promoting the strategic upgrade of 4.0 of China’s global “going-out” of high-speed railway and “opening-up” to the outside world.

Keywords

Internationalization; Rail Transit Higher Vocational Colleges; Development Path