Author(s)

Jing Wang

Corresponding Author

Jing Wang

ABSTRACT

In the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, the number of Central Asian international students has reached more than 160 thousand in China. Among them, overseas Chinese students, with the advantages of multilingualism and integration of Chinese and foreign languages, play a unique role in serving the building of the Belt and Road Initiative, maintaining stability in border inspection and promoting people-to-people exchange. The identification of Chinese as the heritage language for Chinese Central Asian students from studying in China is a positive and dynamic language cognition, emotion and action for Chinese. In the new era, its identity of Chinese has also undergone a series of changes: from “ask me to learn” to “I want to learn”, from Chinese to Chinese + specialty and from Chinese learning to Chinese heritage.

KEYWORDS

Under the belt and road initiative, Chinese central asian students, Identity of heritage language, Change