Economic globalization and cultural diversification are continuously intensifying, which is bound to pose new challenges to international education and put forward new requirements for the cultivation of innovative and applied talents. Facing the future and industrial needs, the research and practice of innovative and applied talents in food field will expand the development path of international education. With the jointly built by Bohai University and University of Burundi as an example, the foundation of project cooperation, existing difficulties in talent training and strategies and practices were elaborated. Result. The strategies for cultivating innovative and applied talents in "Chinese + food" were clarified from four aspects of implementing the fundamental task of strengthening moral education and cultivating people, promoting the construction of the "Chinese + food" standard system, building a double-qualified and bilingual teaching staff, and promoting the construction of the "Chinese + food" curriculum system. The cultivation model of innovative and applied talents in "Chinese + food" of Bohai University has primarily formed, which will provide new ideas for the cultivation of international innovative and applied talents in engineering majors such as food and packaging engineering in local colleges and universities in the new era.