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31 August 2026

Research on Innovation and Practice of Digital-Intelligent International Economic and Trade Talent Cultivation

Rongrong Zhou1 Changya Di1
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1 Sanjiang University, Nanjing 210012, China
PBES 2026 , 9(8), 242–250; https://doi.org/10.18063/PBES.v9i8.15165
© 2026 by the Author(s). Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

The deep integration of the digital economy and the Fourth Scientific and Technological Revolution has accelerated the digital and intelligent evolution of international trade forms, and application-oriented digital-intelligent trade talents have become the core factor supporting high-quality industrial development. Against the background of emerging liberal arts construction, this paper systematically interprets the theoretical connotation and logical mechanism of digital-intelligent trade talent cultivation, sorts out domestic and foreign relevant research progress and practical experience, and analyzes structural contradictions existing in talent cultivation from the dimensions of supply-demand matching, resource supply, and mechanism coordination. This research proposes constructing a new talent cultivation paradigm empowered by digital intelligence, featuring “four-party coordination among universities, government, industry, and enterprises as well as four integrations of industry-education, science-education, innovation-education, and competition-education.” Implementation paths are designed from dimensions including ideological and political education system, curriculum system reform, dual-qualified faculty construction, industry-university-research platform establishment and evaluation feedback mechanism, and the feasibility of the model is verified combined with typical cases. The research results can provide theoretical references and practical schemes for the transformation of international trade majors and the construction of emerging liberal arts in local universities.

Keywords
Digital-intelligent trade
Talent cultivation
Four-Coordination and Four-Integration
Countermeasures and suggestions
Funding
Funding This paper was a phased research achievement of the Higher Education Teaching Reform Research Project of Jiangsu Province: Innovation and Practice of Application-Oriented Digital-Intelligent Trade Talent Cultivation Model Under the Background of Emerging Liberal Arts (No. 2025JGZD172) and Research on Talent Cultivation Mechanism of Digital-Intelligent International Economic and Trade Under the Background of Emerging Liberal Arts (No. JY2024034).
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