It is a pleasure to visit Binzhou Vocational College. The institution has left me with a profoundly impressive impression. I look forward to establishing more extensive and closer cooperation with the school to advance the development of Sino-African educational endeavors.

On November 23, a four-member delegation from Guinea, including Secretary-General Aboubakar Kourouma of the Ministry of Mines and Geology, Chief Inspector Mohamed Ouattara of the Labor Inspection Directorate under the Ministry of Labor and Civil Service, and Senior Advisor Daouda Diakhaté of the Ministry of Mines and Geology, visited our university for an exchange. The delegation was warmly received by Liu Jinyi, Secretary of the University Party Committee; Shen Baozhong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President; and Hu Hongtao, Member of the Party Committee and Director of the Binzhou Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Sun Gaoliang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, accompanied the guests during their tour.

The delegation toured educational facilities including the Advanced Control Technology Engineering Center, Advanced Manufacturing Technology Engineering Center, Maritime Simulator Training Lab, Smart Learning Factory for Prefabricated Buildings, and Rehabilitation Therapy Training Lab at the school's history museum and training base. They engaged in cordial exchanges with faculty and students while experiencing various training facilities. Through classroom visits, they gained detailed insights into the training base's operations, industry-academia collaboration models, curriculum design, and practical teaching components. The visitors expressed admiration for the school's advanced training facilities and comprehensive teaching system.

Wherever industries go, vocational education must follow and provide support. Driven by the Belt and Road Initiative, Binzhou Vocational College adheres to the principle of “education following industry, industry and education advancing together.” Partnering with leading enterprises such as Chinalco and China Railway Resources, it has established seven overseas branch campuses, the “Bainmo Academy,” and Chinese language workshops in countries including Guinea. The college has dispatched over 30 faculty members to accompany enterprises overseas, completing training for more than 3,000 skilled personnel abroad.

Vocational education serves as a vital vehicle for China's economic, technological, and cultural exchanges and cooperation with countries around the world. Moving forward, the school will thoroughly implement the spirit of the World Congress on Vocational and Technical Education, advance the internationalization of vocational education, continuously enhance the development of overseas colleges, expand cooperation areas, elevate project quality, and share development outcomes. These efforts will inject new momentum into the global advancement of vocational education and make fresh contributions to its progress.