Opportunity knocks

Students hoping to study abroad are discovering options beyond the obvious, traditional choices, and the Belt and Road Initiative is creating more. Zhang Zefeng reports.

When many Chinese college graduates prepared to apply to major Western colleges this year, Zhejiang University senior Xu Mengmeng opted to take a different approach.

Xu, who originally comes from Henan province, hopes to enroll in the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, a Saudi Arabian institution in one of the Belt and Road Initiative countries.