Recently, the "Pioneer of Art Management" program, a Sino-European High-level Art Program for the Cultivation of Innovative Talents in art management and the "Pioneer of Art Road", an international training program for New Era High-level Art Talents Cultivation, applied by the School of Arts, RUC, were finally approved as special programs for art talents cultivation in 2024 by China Scholarship Council. The success of the two programs marks new breakthrough of the school in the cultivation of international talents.

The China Scholarship Council special program for art talents cultivation, as one of the programs funded by the Chinese authority, mainly aims to provide economic assistance to and standardized management of Chinese students during their stay in foreign countries. According to the requirements of the CSC program, the School of Art will, based on the international talent cultivation cooperation agreements signed with the first-class universities in Europe and along the "Belt and Road", select its exemplary graduate students to go to the overseas partner institutions for communication and study every year. Teachers can also be selected to carry out academic visits and international research as visiting scholars in these universities, a move aiming to boost the internationalization of the school.

The "Pioneer of Art Management" is a Sino-European High-level Art Program for the Cultivation of Innovative Talents in art management. This program brings together some of the strongest disciplines of RUC, including management, finance, communication and law. Students from these fields can choose the “1+1+1” double master program co-offered by RUC and few distinguished French universities that are strong in culture, art and management. The "Pioneer of Art Road" program is an international training program for New Era High-level Art Talents Cultivation. The purpose of the program is to better serve the Belt and Road Initiative, promoting RUC’s cooperation with distinguished universities in Italy, Malaysia, among other countries along the road in talents cultivation in Art, Fine Arts, Design, and Music. The program offers financial support for cross-cultural academic exchanges to go overseas for one semester or one academic year.

In recent years, the School of Arts, RUC, has strived to boost pragmatic cooperation with the first-class universities in Europe and along the "Belt and Road" on all fronts by leveraging the advantages brought by the China-Europa Education Alliance for Humanities and Arts. The school is also working actively to build platform for international communication. More measures are also under way to boost its efforts to cultivate international talents. Currently, RUC has established cooperation agreement with many distinguished universities across the globe. It has held many large-scale international forums such as the Sino-French “Global Youth Multidimensional Dialogue”, the Mingde Art Forum, the China-Europa Education Forum for Humanities and Arts and the Forum on the Belt and Road of Knowledge. Thanks to these efforts, the internationalization of the School of Arts, RUC, in talents cultivation has gained remarkable improvement. The enthusiasm of students to apply for the exchange programs of distinguished foreign universities and its success rate have increased remarkably during the pandemic. Specifically speaking, the number of students enrolled in foreign exchange programs in 2023 is nearly four times higher than that of 2018, reaching a historic high. Besides, nearly 50 students of the School of Arts, RUC won awards in various international music competitions, international design competitions and other international events. All these achievements bear witness to the international competitiveness of RUC students and the international influence of RUC's art.

With a commitment to the philosophy of Art for the People in education and creation, the School of Arts, RUC has been devoted to the development of Chinese culture, striving to explore a new path to cultivate top-notch talents in arts, fully leverage the distinctive role of arts in integrating foreign culture into Chinese culture and boost mutual-learning among civilizations, expand its cooperation with major European countries and countries along the Belt and Silk Road, thus ultimately providing talents who are capable of presenting the voice, theory and thinking of the Chinese people to global audience.