A teacher from the Laiwu Vocational and?Technical College in Jinan city, Shandong province in east China, explains to students from Thailand how to operate industrial robots. As China strives for a higher level of opening up, vocational colleges are exploring new ways to train international students. The Laiwu Vocational and Technical College is working in collaboration with colleges and universities in the Belt and Road Initiative partner countries. The college has established overseas branches and is working with vocational schools in Southeast Asia to train technicians.?The trainees learn both manufacturing skills and the Chinese language, which helps them to find better jobs when they graduate.?(PHOTO:?ZHOU?Weihai)
The trio will conduct a series of experiments in fields such as life science, fluid physics, combustion science and materials science. Notably, this is the first time that fruit flies have been taken on a Chinese space mission as experimental subjects. What made scientists choose fruit flies? What experiment will they undergo?
