With the in-depth development of cooperation, more and more African youth's career dreams have become a reality, and the talent base has been continuously built to enhance Africa's ability to develop independently.

China-Zambia Vocational and Technical College

Kasawa, a power station engineer in the Zambia-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, is a busy man right now. When there was an emergency failure in the power station, he led the team to deal with it. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, and the busier the work.

It took only a few short years for Casava to grow into an expert in power plant operation and maintenance. Previously he was a general electrician. In 2019, the power station in the economic and trade cooperation zone was put into operation. Kasawa and some colleagues participated in the power station operation and maintenance training course organized by the China-Zambia Vocational and Technical College (hereinafter referred to as the China-Zambia Vocational and Technical College). "Before the training, we didn't know much about how to operate it safely and properly, and some colleagues didn't even dare to touch the transformer." Casava recalled that in the training class, they not only learned theoretical knowledge from the teacher, but also Practical training. After this training, Kasawa was familiar with the steps of power station operation and maintenance, and his safety awareness and skill level were greatly improved.

Due to his outstanding performance in training, Casava was rated as an advanced employee, and later became the leader of a team of more than a dozen people. "Vocational training has given me systematic skill training. Some sudden power failures, if not trained, we will definitely not be able to deal with it. Now, as long as I listen to the sound of the transformer, I can basically judge whether there is a problem." Casava said , "We all hope that there will be more such training opportunities in the future, which is a good thing for the development of enterprises and individuals."

In recent years, China-Zambia Vocational and Technical College has carried out nearly 50 employee skills training sessions in Zambia, including more than 20 types of work such as electrician, welding, fitter, maintenance technology, etc., which has improved the professional quality and skills of local employees as a whole. The staff has reached more than 1000 people.

China-Zambia Vocational and Technical College is jointly established by China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association and China Nonferrous Metals Mining Group with the support of the Ministry of Education of China and organized by 10 domestic vocational colleges. In addition to providing skills training to Zambian employees of Chinese companies, the college also provides secondary and higher vocational education for Zambian high school graduates. "Our college aims to cultivate talents with excellent skills and abilities for Zambia." Yamwa, the Zambian director of the college, told reporters that he thanked China for dispatching excellent teachers and advanced facilities to the college. Students not only learn practical theories , and also carry out a wealth of skills practice. "We look forward to strengthening cooperation with the Chinese side to develop the college into a prestigious vocational and technical college in Africa."

China Nonferrous Metals Group, which has been deeply involved in Zambia for many years, always regards Zambian employees as good friends and good partners. Together with domestic higher vocational colleges, it provides Zambian employees with skills and industrial Chinese training, develops professional teaching standards, holds Confucius classrooms, and organizes students. Studying in China, etc., established a joint working mechanism of school-enterprise collaboration, efficient win-win, and deep integration, and cultivated a large number of local technical and skilled talents familiar with Chinese technology, products and processes for enterprises.

Basha, 28, recently returned to Zambia after a three-year study at Harbin Vocational and Technical College. Basha was selected to study in China as the son of an outstanding employee of the company. "Since my father worked in a Chinese company, our family's living conditions have gotten better and better, and the family no longer has to worry about their children's tuition fees." At present, Basha is busy looking for a job, and the experience of studying mechatronics in China is undoubtedly a great experience. Bonus points, "I not only learned the technology, but also communicated in simple Chinese, which made me full of confidence in the future".

It is understood that China-Zambia Vocational and Technical College has successively selected more than 150 Zambian students from local schools and children of enterprise employees to study in Central South University, Liaoning University, Kunming University of Science and Technology and other institutions. In 2020, in order to help local girls find employment in a targeted manner, the college also selected 12 girls to set up an international nursing class. Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the students are currently studying online, and when the epidemic improves, they will also go to China to study.

Jinhua Vocational and Technical College

"What I have learned in China will last a lifetime," said Twizel, a Rwandan boy. A few years ago, he had the opportunity to go to China Jinhua Vocational and Technical College to study communication equipment. He is now starting his own business and exploring how to use what he has learned in China to promote economic and trade exchanges between Luxembourg and China.

Twizzler is still excited when he recalls studying in China. Get up in the morning, turn on the computer to study data and test programs; go out to school for class; go to the laboratory in the afternoon to do graduation design; go back to the room at 10 o'clock in the evening to continue typing code. "As a member of the first training class entrusted by the Rwandan government, I cherish the opportunity to study in China very much." In addition to studying professional knowledge, Twizel actively represented the school to participate in various skills competitions in China, such as in 2018 China National He won the second prize in the "Mechatronics Project" International Invitational Competition of the Vocational College Skills Competition.

After graduating, Twizele founded an online store, focusing on providing economic and trade services to people from Rwanda and other countries in China. At first, Twizzler was responsible for development, promotion, maintenance, customer service and many other tasks, and it worked every day. I still remember a time when the server was overloaded, causing the program to not work properly, and a large number of customer complaints flooded into Twizel's phone, which made him overwhelmed for a while. Relying on the guidance and help of the team of teachers of Jinhua Vocational and Technical College, Twizel was able to overcome the technical difficulties and realize the smooth operation of the online store. This is exactly what the African proverb says: go fast alone, go far.

Like Twizel, there are many Rwandan students who enjoy the dividends of China-Rwanda vocational education cooperation. Since 2014, Jinhua Vocational and Technical College has received a total of 99 Rwandan students for 4 sessions. Based on the good results of vocational education cooperation, in July 2017, Musanze International College, established in cooperation with Jinhua Vocational and Technical College and Rwanda Musanze Vocational and Technical School, was officially listed in Rwanda. In the fields of business and food processing, we focus on cultivating local Rwandan talents who understand Chinese and have good skills, so as to improve the quality of labor in Rwanda and the Middle East and Africa, and promote regional economic and social development.

Up to now, Musanze International College has trained 3,880 students in Rwanda. It has also cooperated with Chinese companies such as Huawei to build 8 experimental training rooms involving information and communication technology, e-commerce and other fields. Joseph, executive vice-principal of Musanze Vocational and Technical School, expressed his gratitude to China for building such a beautiful and high-quality school for us, "We are actively cooperating with the Chinese side, learning from China's mature experience and advanced teaching concepts, and striving to make Rwanda's vocational education leapfrog development, and cultivate urgently needed talents for the country and neighboring countries.”

Today, with the active participation and support of Chinese universities, the vocational education cooperation mechanism between China and Rwanda has become increasingly mature. In November 2019, Jinhua Vocational and Technical College and Rwanda Institute of Technology reached a number of cooperation consensuses on the output of teaching standards and the co-construction of professional disciplines. Keywords: One Belt One Road, One Belt One Road News, One Belt One Road Project

Vocational education cooperation has promoted China-Rwanda people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation. In the past 8 years, relevant departments and local governments of China and Luxembourg have conducted exchanges and interactions nearly 30 times, and have fully communicated on teacher training, entrusted training of international students, overseas branch campus construction, and management of cadres dispatched. Eugene Mutimura, former Minister of Education of Rwanda, commented, "China has contributed to the development of vocational education in Rwanda, and vocational education cooperation has become another model of Rwanda-China friendship."

Internship program for South African students to study in China

Duncan Mongozulu is less than 30 years old this year and is already well-known in the vocational education circle in South Africa. As one of the first batch of student representatives of the "South African Students Studying and Internship Program in China", he not only achieved success in China and successfully returned to work in China, but also represented South Africa in the "Belt and Road" and BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition and won an award . Today, Munger Zulu is both a mechanical engineer and the chairman of the South African Students Alumni Association in China. An important mission he shoulders is to help more South African students learn vocational skills in China.

Mengzulu said: "In China, what I have learned is not only technical skills, but also professionalism. The Chinese people's hard-working, persistent, and highly responsible work attitude has influenced me and has become a valuable asset in my career. "

In 2017, Mengzulu was still a general mechanical engineering student, and the "Internship Program for South African Students to Study in China" brought opportunities for his career development. The project was jointly established by the South African Ministry of Higher Education and Training and the South African Chinese Culture and International Education Exchange Center.

In Changzhou Information Vocational and Technical College and the practice base of Suzhou Bozhong Precision Technology Co., Ltd., Mengzulu focused on learning the operation, maintenance and quality control of 3-axis and 5-axis CNC machine tools, "the control of these professional equipment, the school in South Africa Rarely involved. Thanks to the serious and responsible Chinese teachers whose enthusiasm and professionalism are unforgettable.” After returning home, he became a mechanical engineer for a well-known construction machinery company in South Africa. His experience has been reported by many South African media, and the "South African Students Studying and Internship Program in China" has gradually become a brand project of China-South Africa vocational education cooperation.

Since 2017, more than 1,700 South African students have participated in the "South African Students Study Abroad Internship Program in China", and their vocational training and practice fields cover machinery, electronics, communications, tourism, logistics, food, e-commerce and other categories. At present, the project has been incorporated into the mechanism results implemented by the China-Africa (South) Vocational Education Cooperation Alliance platform. The members of the China-Africa (South) Vocational Education Cooperation Alliance include more than 100 Chinese vocational colleges and enterprises, and nearly 30 South African vocational and technical colleges.

The purpose of the "Internship Program for South African Students to Study in China" is to help students acquire skills and achieve employment. The South African education community fully affirmed the effectiveness of the project. Boty Asia Morgan, principal of the Gert Seaband Vocational and Technical College in South Africa, said that the school will continue to select students to participate in the project, and these students who have returned from China will have a greater chance to stay and teach in the school, and the school will also organize students Representatives gave speeches at various campuses, asking them to tell about what they saw and learned in China, and encouraged more students to gain the opportunity to study in China.

South African Minister of Higher Education and Science and Technology Nazmand sent a letter to thank the Chinese government and relevant vocational education institutions. He said that South African students have benefited a lot from their study and practice in China, and they will cherish this precious experience. The South African government looks forward to further strengthening cooperation with China in science and technology and vocational education and training.

Ethiopian Vocational Education Confucius Institute

In the laboratory of the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia (hereinafter referred to as the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia), with brisk sound effects as the background, local student Tabor is cooperating with the teacher in front of the camera in Chinese, English and local language Amhara A variety of electrical equipment and their uses are shown in slang: "Color mark sensors, fiber amplifiers..."

Under the video that Tabor participated in the recording, a message said: "The video is very useful and beneficial! Looking forward to seeing more videos on robotics-related topics." Tabor told reporters, "This classroom teaching method focuses on Teaching practical skills, I also enjoyed being part of the video recording and learned a lot at the same time.”

This is a new attempt of the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia during the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic-to carry out online teaching through an online video platform. The Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia is jointly organized by Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University and the Ethiopian Federal Vocational and Technical Education and Training Institute (formerly Ethiopia-China Vocational and Technical College). Since its establishment in 2009, it has been combining Chinese teaching and vocational technical training It is a Confucius Institute featuring "Chinese + Vocational Skills".

Tabor is a third-year mechatronics engineering student at Addis Ababa University of Science and Technology, Ethiopia. His teacher had benefited from the vocational education cooperation between China and Ethiopia, so he recommended several outstanding students, including Tabor, to the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia to learn Chinese and related technologies. "Our school has relatively few experimental equipment, and most of the time is spent learning theoretical knowledge, which leads to our lack of ability in practical operation. After coming to the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia, it was the first time for me to come into contact with so many advanced equipment and to have a deeper understanding of it. Understand the field I'm studying," Tabor said. The Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia does not charge them any fees, which makes Tabor grateful, “If I need to pay tuition fees for such excellent courses and advanced equipment, I will definitely not be able to afford it. I sincerely thank Confucius Vocational Education in Ethiopia. The academy has waived tuition for us, giving us such a valuable learning opportunity.”

"I was very worried about whether I could find a job after graduation," said Tabor. "Through studying at the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia for several months, I realized that only by constantly learning advanced knowledge and technology can The country does more meaningful things." Now, with the encouragement of teachers from the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia, Tabor is working hard to learn Chinese and plans to apply for a postgraduate study in China.

Tabor is one of the tens of thousands of students who have benefited from the training of the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia. Since its establishment, the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia has offered professional and technical Chinese, skills training and short-term training courses for teachers and students of the Ethiopian Federal Vocational and Technical Education and Training Institute in automobile, machinery, electronic and electrical, computer and other majors. There are more than 40,000 registered students.

Jiang Jiang, the Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute for Vocational Education in Ethiopia, is an African-aided teacher selected by Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University. Now he has been engaged in vocational education and training in Ethiopia for more than 10 years. Tabor and his university teachers are Jiang Jiang's students. "From training local vocational education school teachers in the past few years to training more students now, our teaching scope is constantly expanding. In the field of vocational education in Ethiopia, especially the electrical direction, we can find our students in almost every school." Jiang Jiang and his colleagues talked about this, with a proud and gratified smile on his face. Keywords: One Belt One Road, One Belt One Road News, One Belt One Road Project

"Many students still keep in touch with me after graduation. A recent graduate came to visit us from out of town and gave me a mug with a pattern of his own electrical repair shop on it. He said that he is now working I often refer to the maintenance handouts we issued in the past. It is the happiest thing to be able to help these young people." Jiang Jiang sighed.Editor/XuNing