The realization of “the Belt and Road (B & R) Initiatives” urgently needs a large number of language-qualifi ed personnel.This paper is to report what has been refl ected by the writer on the issue of producing such people for the B & R.As a result,three problems are identified,which include:1) when considering defi ciency in language-qualified personnel for the B&R,we tend to take an inner perspective only,which means looking at China without thinking of countries and regions along the B & R at the same time;2) lack the mechanism of designing top-down BA programs of less commonly taught languages;and 3) the current curriculum without a sound theoretical basis and clear goals of producing specifi ed types of language-qualifi ed personnel.To solve these problems,three suggestions are proposed:1) in order to construct a better curriculum,three elements (i.e.national/social needs,individual students’ development and language learning theories) need to be considered simultaneously;2) with both inner and outer perspectives,language-qualified personnel for the B & R must be produced in diversifi ed programs;and 3)lessons from the American practice can be taken to make ‘Language+X’ combined programs in China more effective.