"The Belt and Road Initiative" poses a great challenge for the internationalization of maritime vocational education and COVID-19 pandemic has a great impact on it. This paper analyses the problems existing in the internationalization of maritime vocational education in China, including poor awareness of internationalization, lack of internationalized English teachers, campus culture and legal system of maritime education a well as difficulty in carrying out Sino-foreign cooperation project. Based on the above analysis, it proposes several development strategies, i.e., enhancing international awareness, paying attention to the cultivation of students' intercultural communication skills, strengthening the construction of internationalized teachers, creating an internationalized campus culture, establishing the legal system of navigation education, setting up training institutions, exploring a new mode of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools and developing education for overseas students.

Xiaoli Hu. Study on Internationalization of Maritime Vocational Education in the New Era. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 15: 35-40. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2022.041507.

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