The South China Morning Post reported that over 21 Luban Workshops have been set up in 20 countries in Asia, Europe and Africa, although being little known in the West.
In the past two years, the Ethiopian Luban Workshop has promoted China-Africa cooperation and boosted people-to-people exchanges, as a high-level vocational education cooperation platform.
The Luban Construction Workshop College, a Chinese vocational workshop program training talents overseas, was inaugurated in Cambodia's southeastern province of Kandal on Wednesday.
In Tanzania, a workshop named after the ancient Chinese craftsman Lu Ban is providing vocational skills training for local youths who are brimming with excitement as they work in an automobile workshop wearing blue overalls.
China and Thailand on Tuesday unveiled a language and technical training institute in Bangkok, with an aim to deepen cooperation between the two nations in Chinese language education and vocational skills training.
Thailand and China have jointly announced the establishment of the Institute of Chinese Language, Technical and Vocational Education and Training, to cultivate talent and boost cooperation between the two countries.
The Cambodia Luban Workshop, which is currently the largest workshop of its kind, passed its acceptance evaluation on Mar 17 in Tianjin, China.
"It's my ultimate dream to promote traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to Africa, to benefit the African people, and to boost exchanges and mutual learning," said Diarra Boubacar, a promoter of the world's first TCM-related Luban Workshop and the first foreigner to obtain a doctorate degree in TCM, in an exclusive interview with China Investment magazine.
