International cooperation in China's vocational education has expanded to more than 80 countries and regions

China News Service, Tianjin, October 17 (Reporter Zhou Yaqiang) The "White Paper on Vocational Education in China" was released in Tianjin on the 17th. The white paper shows that more than 300 vocational schools in China have carried out more than 500 vocational education cooperation projects in more than 80 countries and regions, forming a multi-level, multi-subject and multi-regional international cooperation pattern for vocational education.

The above-mentioned white paper was released at the 2026 World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference. According to the white paper, China has established a multilateral cooperation platform by hosting this conference and establishing regional vocational education cooperation organizations.

According to the white paper, since co-building the world's first Luban Workshop with Thailand in 2016, China has built 38 Luban Workshops with 32 countries in 4 continents, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States, opened more than 100 majors, trained more than 30,000 academic students, and trained more than 160,000 non-academic students. China has also implemented the "Chinese + Vocational Skills" project, and together with Luban Workshop and others, it has formed a multi-type collaborative international cooperation brand for vocational education.

Loida Barreda, director of Nicaragua's National Science and Technology Training Agency, said during the conference that Nicaragua is the first country in the Americas to build a Luban Workshop. The Luban Workshop has helped the country cultivate talents in the fields of electrical automation, mechatronics, machinery manufacturing, and the Internet of Things, and has improved the country's production technology and industrial development level.

The white paper also mentioned that the 2024 National Vocational School Skills Competition will be upgraded to the World Vocational School Skills Competition; the 2026 competition will attract 78 countries, 9,391 teams, and 36,000 players from 5 continents to participate, creating the largest scale ever.

The white paper states that international cooperation in China's vocational education has achieved a transformation from inter-school exchanges to mechanism collaboration, from single-point projects to system co-construction, from resource exchange to capacity co-building, and from companies going global to benefiting people's livelihood.