China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week, which has been held annually in Southwest China's Guizhou province for the past 13 years, has contributed to the opening-up of education in Guizhou.
Students in Southwest China's Guizhou province recently had a ball as they started their new autumn semester – with the province's schools reportedly offering stimulating and interesting first classes, to help the kids adjust to school life.
As China attaches greater importance to vocational education based on students' abilities, more high-level blue-collar workers can receive good salaries and social recognition, embarking on the road to self-fulfillment.
Southwest China's Guizhou province launched a database of education data on Aug 11.
A volunteer team from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macao recently visited three schools in Congjiang county and provided Portuguese courses to raise the interest of students in Portugal's language and its culture.
A total of 13 student journalists from China's Tsinghua University completed an eight-day field trip in Southwest China's Guizhou province, which ended on Thursday.
Eight pairs of schools from Southwest China's Guizhou province and Macao officially became sister schools at a signing ceremony held in Guizhou's capital Guiyang on April 2.