100 Pakistani Students To Get Training At Hunan Chemical, Vocational Technology College

BEIJING, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Nov, 2018 ) :As many as 100 Pakistani students will start a three-year diploma programme of vocational training at Hunan Chemical and Vocational Technology College, one of the leading vocational training institutes in China.

The students, likely to start the classes in March next year have already been selected under prescribed criteria from different parts of Pakistan, Director, International Cooperation and Exchange Division of Liaison, Hunan Chemical and Vocational Technology College, Xiao Hong told APP on Wednesday.

The college, established in 1958 and located in the largest transportation hub in southern Chinese city Zhuzhou is celebrating its 60th anniversary.

The three-year diploma programme, an effort to instill future skills in the youth of Pakistan, offers the ideal hands-on experience of the emerging technologies and industries in China that the youth of Pakistan may benefit from under the billion of Dollar investments under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) the Belt and Road Initiative.

The programme will also cover multiple internships at Chinese companies to impart professional and technical knowledge in the candidates.

He Jing, a professor said the college is a state-run public full-time ordinary university directly affiliated to the Hunan Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education has co-established practical teaching base with Pakistani institutes and successfully held the first study programme for Pakistani trainees.

She highly appreciated the Pakistani student's behaviour and their commitment to the study during their stay in the college.

It is an outstanding evaluation unit for the talent training work of the Ministry of Education, and an excellent demonstration vocational college in Hunan Province.

The College has also set up a "CPEC Chemical Paint Exchange Centre" aimed at providing diploma and non-diploma opportunities for Pakistan and organise faculty and student exchange programmes to contribute and promote educational and cultural exchanges between China and Pakistan.

A management team of the college attended "2018 Pakistan-China Vocational Education International Cooperation Forum and Resources Exhibition Fair" and signed the memorandum of understanding with educational institutions as well as universities and colleges in Pakistan including Sindh board Technical Education Committee, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Infinity school of Engineering.

The college has been awarded as the excellent unit of talent cultivation by the national ministry of education, the provincial excellent and exemplary college for student employment and entrepreneurship.

Liu Zixuan, a lecturer of the college said, the number of students is over 12,000, faculty number is around 600 including nearly 400 full-time teachers, 22 professors, 198 vice professors, 13 Ph.D and 209 Master degree holders.

Ever since its foundation, the college has cultivated 80,000 skilled talent of high quality for the society, which has made a great contribution to local economic and social development.