"It's my ultimate dream to promote traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to Africa, to benefit the African people, and to boost exchanges and mutual learning," said Diarra Boubacar, a promoter of the world's first TCM-related Luban Workshop and the first foreigner to obtain a doctorate degree in TCM, in an exclusive interview with China Investment magazine.
The Pakistan Luban Workshop passed its acceptance evaluation on Mar 3 in Tianjin, a coastal city in North China.
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.
