Abstract: Sino-foreign collaborative education is an important measure of our country's opening up in education field, which realizes mutual advantageous complementarity and promotes the integration between the East and the West. To achieve the aim of cultivating socialism constructors and successors, grasping the orientation of socialism education is the key issue in running sino-foreign collaborative education. This paper first analyses the necessity of conducting core socialist values education and lists the existing problems. And then, it emphasizes the importance of practicing socialism core values education in nourishing students' patriotism. Taking International Education College of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry as an example, this paper explores the education routes of implementing core socialist values.

Key words: Sino-foreign collaborative education, Core socialist values, Education route