China News Service, Liuzhou, Guangxi, October 15th (Yu Jing Li Jiawei) "Influenced by my elder brother, I became interested in railway majors and came to Liuzhou, Guangxi to study." Wang Changyang, a Laotian international student at Liuzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College (hereinafter referred to as Liutie Vocational College), said in an interview in Liuzhou on the 14th that his brother worked on the Laos-China Railway after graduation. The family has studied in cross-border "relays" with the same school, hoping to bring China's advanced railway operation experience back to Laos after graduation.
Wang Hanqiang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Liutie Vocational College, said that the school carries out talent training and technology export in fields such as railways and new energy vehicles to Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and other ASEAN countries. In the past five years, it has trained more than 1,200 ASEAN students, and has taken the lead in establishing platforms such as the China-Malaysia Railway Modern Craftsman College and the China-Malaysia Vocational Education Industry-Education Alliance. A group of ASEAN students have acquired advanced technologies in China and returned to build their hometowns.
The picture shows Wang Changyang (right), a Lao international student at Liuzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College, learning the knowledge of receiving and dispatching trains under the guidance of Chinese teachers. Photo by Yu Jing
Wang Hanqiang took the Malaysian East Coast Railway (referred to as the Malaysian East Coast Railway) project as an example. The company is responsible for hardware construction to ensure that the railway is open to traffic, and the university has set up an order class. Combined with Malaysian national regulations and operating habits, the two parties jointly compiled relevant standards. Chinese railway standards can rely on technical talents that adapt to the needs of ASEAN industries to go overseas.
As cooperation between China and ASEAN continues to deepen, China not only cultivates railway-related talents for ASEAN, but also cooperates with ASEAN countries in the design of railway operation and maintenance plans, staffing planning, and the formulation of training plans.
Qin Haibo, head of the chairman unit of the China-Malaysia Vocational Education Industry and Education Alliance, said in a previous interview that Liutie Vocational College and the contractor of the East Malaysia Railway Project work together to create a new path from "going overseas with companies" to "collaborating with schools and enterprises" and deeply participating in the formulation of standards. As cooperation between China and ASEAN continues to deepen, the demand for talents in railways, urban rail transit, artificial intelligence and other fields will continue to grow.
In recent years, Guangxi has built 19 China-ASEAN modern craftsmen colleges, covering all 11 ASEAN countries. Many vocational colleges such as Liutie Vocational College and Liuzhou Vocational and Technical University have cooperated with colleges and universities in ASEAN countries.
Industry experts pointed out that as China's railway technology goes overseas, in addition to the implementation of hardware such as infrastructure, "soft connectivity" such as talent reserves and technical standards are long-standing weak links. Liutie Vocational College has created an industry-education integration mechanism for ASEAN, carried out local rail transit technical talent training with ASEAN countries, and jointly developed samples of rail transit vocational education and job skills standards based on local conditions, which will effectively fill in the "soft connectivity" shortcomings in regional transportation cooperation.
