Chinese Government funds trainings at the Indian Luban Workshop

The Chinese Government providing funding for the establishment of the Indian Luban Workshop, a vocational training institute. The workshop had the support of three schools: Tianjin Light Industry Vocational Technical College and Tianjin Vocational College of Mechanics and Electricity in China, and Chennai Institute of Technology. The center opened in December 2017. The Indian Luban Workshops provided training in manufacturing, mechanical design, photovoltaic power generation, and numerical control equipment; these skills are in high demand amongst Chinese companies operating in India and are needed to maintain and operate Chinese equipment imported to India. By October 2019, the Indian Luban Workshop had trained more than 200 Indian college students and 500 employees in Chennai. 65 of its trainees were hired by Chinese companies in India

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The commitment_year field has been estimated because it is unclear when the Chinese Government provided funding for the Luban Workshop; in the absence of a specific year, 2017 has been selected as the workshop opened that year.

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