The Luban Workshop Industry and Education Integration Development Alliance was officially established in Tianjin on Thursday with 32 enterprises including Huawei and CREC and 18 colleges involved in building Luban Workshops coming aboard.

The alliance will give full play to the resource advantages of colleges and enterprises, and is committed to actively serving optimization of the business environment of the port city, promoting closer international integration of industry and education between schools and enterprises, and serving the projects of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Tianjin has now built 18 Luban Workshops worldwide, which have played an important role in sharing equipment and technologies and promoting international communication.

Chen Sichang, general manager of China Civil Engineering Corporation, said that the alliance will provide intellectual support and resource guarantees for the high-quality and sustainable development of Luban Workshops, and provide skilled personnel training and technological innovation services for the overseas development of Chinese companies.

Cao Xiaohong, deputy mayor of the municipality, noted that the alliance can actively play a leading role, combine collective action with bilateral and multilateral cooperation, and strive to build an international talent training collaboration network for academic exchanges, collaborative research, and resource sharing.