Luban Workshop series national standards announced

On October 17, four national standards, including general requirements for the construction of Luban workshops, implementation requirements for engineering practice innovation project teaching models, general requirements for teaching equipment, and operation quality assessment guidelines, proposed by the Ministry of Education, were announced at the closing ceremony of the 2026 World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference and will be implemented from April 1, 2027.

The standards are clear. Luban Workshop has established a school-enterprise joint development mechanism. In the "tripartite collaboration group", the Chinese construction school leads the curriculum system design and theoretical content development, the foreign construction entity is responsible for localization demand research and cultural adaptation, and the cooperative construction enterprise provides real enterprise project cases; a normalized foreign teacher training mechanism should be established, and the Chinese and foreign parties jointly formulate training training plan; engineering practice innovation projects should meet engineering, practical, innovative, and project-based requirements; teaching equipment should refer to the actual equipment technology level in use in domestic advantageous industries, and be compatible with the local industrial development stage and equipment supporting capabilities of the partner country; the operation quality assessment is based on a three-year cycle to ensure brand standardization, orderly, sustainable and high-quality development.

Luban Workshop is a physical school-running project that is jointly constructed overseas by Chinese and foreign universities using the method of "integration of industry and education, and school-enterprise cooperation" to implement academic education and carry out skills training. At present, a total of 38 Luban workshops have been established in 32 countries, offering more than 100 majors, recruiting 30,000 degree students, and training a total of 160,000 people.