The Luban Workshop in Ethiopia has become an important training base for highly qualified faculty for 16 vocational colleges in four countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, delegates from the founders of the workshop announced on Tuesday at a conference marking its second anniversary in Tianjin.
The Advancement Conference for the High-quality Development of the Ethiopian Luban Workshop kicked off in Tianjin, East of China, on April 25, on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the founding of the workshop, providing a platform for sharing the Engineering Practice Innovation Project (EPIP) Teaching Model.
China will organize the second national skills competition in the middle of September in Tianjin with the aim of encouraging the young generation to learn vocational skills and create a more friendly environment by respecting skilled workers.
The Ministry of China recently established an expert committee in Beijing to help in the construction of Luban Workshops.
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.
