Recently, the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education released the list of the first batch of projects approved for the Ministry of Education’s collaborative education projects between academia and industry in 2024. 46 projects including “Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education for Engineering Students from Belt and Road Countries in China”proposed by Zhengzhou university have been approved. The contents involve reforms in innovation and entrepreneurship education, teaching content and curriculum systems, the “Four New” construction, as well as the construction of practical conditions and bases. This marks an important achievement in Zhengzhou university’s continuous promotion of collaborative education between academia and industryas well asexploration of mechanisms for collaborative education between universities and enterprises.