While sharing the Chinese vocational education achievements and providing advanced teaching equipment, Luban Workshops also organized technical skills training for teachers in partner countries and invited them to China for on-site exchanges.
The Moroccan Luban Workshop has been undergoing final checks of machinery and equipment as it prepares to open soon. This will be the 12th Luban workshop built in Africa by the city of Tianjin.
The Luban Workshop is a program to provide technical skills training for college students, enabling them to be market-ready upon graduation. It has created job opportunities in countries where Chinese companies have increased their investments in recent years.
China and Uganda, though thousands of miles apart, are good and like-minded comrades, good brothers helping each other, good friends with mutually beneficial cooperation and good partners overcoming challenges. Projects under the Belt and Road Initiative, including the Luban Workshop have been put into use.
The first round of 99 finalists for the expert database of the Luban Workshop Construction Alliance (LWCA), who were selected from vocational colleges across the country, was published for public supervision.
A training session to improve the English listening and speaking skills of Luban Workshop faculty members was launched at Tianjin Foreign Studies University (TFSU) on Nov 14.
Vocational education has become an important part of China-Africa cooperation in the past few decades, according to an article released by the Jamestown Foundation, a neoconservative think tank in the US.
