This study takes the internationalization of the construction industry under the “Belt and Road” initiative as the background, focusing on the current situation of intercultural adaptability of students in construction vocational education and the path to improve it. Based on the school-enterprise cooperation model, a cultural education system was constructed. A multidimensional survey instrument was designed, and t-test and Pearson correlation were used to empirically analyze 500 valid samples. The results show that the average score of urban students in the dimension of intercultural awareness is 3.85±0.43, while that of rural students is 3.43±0.58 (p<0.01). In the intercultural attitude dimension, the mean score for urban students was 3.71±0.35, while for rural students it was 3.54±0.43 (p<0.05). The intercultural attitude dimension was slightly higher for engineering management students than for architectural design students (p<0.05). Intercultural awareness showed a significant positive correlation with intercultural attitude (r=0.245, p<0.01) and intercultural competence (r=0.268, p<0.01). Accordingly, strategies such as school-enterprise collaborative curriculum reform, mutual support mechanism for urban and rural students and emotional adaptation training are proposed to further promote the in-depth fit between the cultivation of intercultural resilience and industry needs.
