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CHINA HAS ESTABLISHED ITS MAIN VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL WORKSHOP IN GHANA TO OFFER AGRICULTURAL SKIL

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It is located at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani, Bono Region, and is known as the China-Ghana Agricultural Luban Workshop (CThe institution would make it possible for Chinese professionals to provide cutting-edge agricultural instruction and technology to students.




The Luban workshop, which is modelled after an outstanding artisan from ancient China, is a worldwide project for vocational education and training that is supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education.




It was created by Chinese educational institutions in collaboration with their counterparts in the host countries to offer young people skill development.




A total of 19 nations, including Thailand, India, Indonesia, Portugal, Egypt, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya, have so far welcomed the opening of roughly 20 Luban workshops.




The country was jointly founded by the UENR, the Ghana Chinese Chamber of Commerce, TIAST West Africa Limited, and Liaoning Agricultural Vocational and Technical College in China.




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The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Lu Kan, stated during the CGLAW's launch last Friday in Accra that the initiative sought to promote collaboration in the fields of culture and education between He said that ten of these workshops were being set up in Africa to strengthen cooperation between China and African nations.


"In the last five years, the African Luban workshop has achieved the whole production of Chinese standards, models, equipment, and solutions under the personal care and promotion of President Xi Jinping. 




More young Africans want to strengthen their talents in Luban workshops and discover new career and growth prospects, Mr. Kan said.




He stated that in order to boost yields, the facility will largely concentrate on cassava production.




The envoy said that China had continually assisted Ghana in enhancing its agricultural industry by sending specialists to the nation and sending Ghanaians there to gain knowledge in the field, and that the CGLAW would help "inject new impetus for the Ghana-China relationship."


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Gifty Twum-Ampofo, a deputy minister of education, praised China for its ongoing support of technical education in the nation, noting that it has resulted in the modernization and enhancement of 13 technical second-cycle schools and 10 technical institutions. 




She said that the workshop will boost the government's efforts to industrialise the nation and assist in processing its raw materials.




Dr. Winfred Nii Okai Hammond, Ghana's ambassador to China, said the Luban educational workshop had greatly increased the number of young people who were empowered in the nations where they had been formed. He expressed optimism that the same would happen in Ghana.China and other nations.GALW

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