Recently, Xinhua News Agency published an English interpretation article titled "Explainer: How China's Global Development Initiative serves as a public good" for overseas audiences. The article selected the "International Order Class" of Conch and Wuhu Vocational Technical University as a typical case of vocational education supporting the implementation of global development initiatives, telling the world the story of China's vocational education international cooperation.
The excerpt from the manuscript is as follows:
DELIVERING TANGIBLE BENEFITS
Across the Global South, China's commitment to common development aligned with the GDI has been translated into projects that improve people's lives.
Skills training programs exemplify the initiative's on-the-ground impact. This September, 34 Indonesian students enrolled in a three-year industrial mechatronics program at Wuhu Vocational Technical University in east China's Anhui Province.
The cohort joins a customized international order-tailored training program run in partnership with Anhui Conch Group Co., Ltd., a leading domestic cement manufacturer.
Launched in 2019, the program adopts a "Chinese language plus vocational skills" model, with courses covering automation, industrial robots and artificial intelligence.
"I will not only gain practical skills, but also understand the logic behind it," said Indonesian student Nilam Insirah, noting that the training allows her to pursue management-related career paths.
"I hope to bring the professional knowledge, management know-how and life experience I gained in China back to Indonesia," program graduate Brayen Difan Makatiwo told Xinhua. "I look forward to becoming a bridge connecting Indonesia with China and the wider world," he said.
Infrastructure connectivity is a key part of these efforts. The China-Laos Railway has turned landlocked Laos into a land transport hub. In Brazil, a "power highway" transmits clean electricity generated in the Amazon rainforest to urban clusters more than 2,000 kilometers away.