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.
China will give more government scholarships in vocational education to international students as part of broader efforts to bolster international exchange in the sector, according to a recent guideline.
A delegation led by Yu Xinwen, deputy president of Tianjin Urban Construction Management & Vocation Technology College, recently visited Tianjin Bohai Vocational Technical College (TBVTC). The two sides exchanged views and experience in the construction of Luban Workshops.
