On the Development of Higher Education and the Improvement of Innovation Ability in Nations Along "One Belt and One Road"

Higher education plays a role as foundation and guidance in the construction of "One Belt and One Road". It undertakes the mission that higher education provides talents, knowledge, science and technology for nations along "One Belt and One Road" so as to improve their national innovation ability. In this paper, it has described the scale of higher education and the situation of innovation ability in 64 countries along "One Belt and One Road" as well as the correlation between them. Through the Pearson Correlation Test, it turns out that there exists highly positive correlation. Then linear regression model has been built to predict the national innovation ability matched with the scale of higher education. Based on the above research, some suggestions on how to promote the "One Belt and One Road" initiative and improve the national innovation ability of different countries are put forward. Chinese government can expand the scale of higher education, offer assistance to the countries in which the development of higher education is poor, strengthen the communication with other countries and take the plan of international innovative talents.