On March 4, the Indonesia Luban Workshop, the third of its kind, passed its acceptance evaluation in Tianjin, a coastal city in North China.
On Mar 2, Didier Dacko, ambassador of the Republic of Mali to China, paid a trip to Tianjin, a coastal city in North China, to investigate on the two country’s joint vocational educational education program - the Luban Workshop program.
Tianjin Vocational Institute and D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday and announced that they will join hands to set up a Luban Workshop in Kazakhstan under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Capo-Chichi Segnon John-Isaac Oluwaseyi, a student from Benin studying at the Tianjin University of Technology and Education, said that he was "very proud" that he and his team had won a gold medal at a world-level micromouse maze navigation competition.
Sharing his joy was 28-year-old Wisit Saenklue, one of the first graduates of the TBVTC's Luban Workshop in Thailand, the first of its kind to be launched by a Chinese college overseas.
Lu Ban, a model of ancient Chinese craftsmanship spirit, is industrious, wise, pragmatic and innovative. In 2016, the Luban Workshop, born in Tianjin, headed out in the world along "The Belt and Road". It emerged as a cradle for the cultivation of high-quality technical talents, and an important platform for the export of Chinese technology, equipment and quality.
The ninth International Forum on Industry and Education was held in the Chinese capital on Jan 10 and 11. With the theme of "connection, cooperation and integration: developing a new paradigm of high-quality application-oriented talent training", the forum included an opening ceremony, a main forum and five subforums.
On Jan 28, People's Daily reported that the Ethiopian Luban Workshop, with Jiang Jiang as its Chinese director, has trained more than 1,500 technical talents in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.
