Students at the Thailand Luban Workshop  convey their blessings to China on Feb 14, 2020. [Photo /Xinhua]

Luban workshops, a worldwide program for technical personnel, express confidence in China's battle against coronavirus.

As China is fighting against the novel coronavirus, many teachers and students from the Luban Workshop, a worldwide program for technical personnel, are sending their blessings through videos and letters to China and expressing confidence in the coming victory.

"I'm sorry for the tragedy of the ongoing coronavirus that occurred in China. We feel your pain," said Abdulrasheed Na'allah, vice-chancellor of the University of Abuja in Nigeria via a video.

He said Chinese people had exerted great energy in poverty alleviation and environmental improvement, and that made the world believe that Chinese people could definitely defeat the virus.

In June 2019, the Tianjin China-Germany University of Applied Sciences in northern China's Tianjin Municipality and the Nigerian university aimed to co-found the Nigeria Luban Workshop, which was estimated to be inaugurated in the first half of this year.

Teachers from the University of Abuja in Nigeria receive training at the Tianjin China-Germany University of Applied Sciences on Dec 4, 2019, northern China's Tianjin municipality. [Photo /Xinhua]

The program is named after Lu Ban, an ancient Chinese woodcraft master, and aims at cultivating technical experts worldwide to serve their countries' economy and society.

Since 2016, 11 Luban workshops have been set up in Asia, Africa and Europe, receiving about 1,800 students for academic education and training about 2,200 people in 28 majors covering mechanics, new energy and automobiles.

Bun Phearin, president of the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia, expressed in a letter his expectation for further cooperation in the Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Training Center, which was inaugurated in October 2018, along with the Cambodia Luban Workshop.

"We are grateful for their greetings. The friendship between China, Cambodia and Nigeria will last forever," said Zhang Xinghui, head of the Tianjin China-Germany University of Applied Sciences.

These countries will continue to promote the construction of the Luban Workshops in Nigeria and Cambodia, according to Zhang.

Many teachers and students at the Thailand Luban Workshop, which was inaugurated in Thailand Ayutthaya Technical College in March 2016, also conveyed their blessings to China.

A student at the Thailand Luban Workshop writes "China, stay strong" on a card to show his support on Feb 13, 2020. [Photo /Xinhua]

Montree Haruanthong, director of the college, and the students said they hoped the epidemic would finish soon and everything would progress smoothly in China.

Yu Lanping, dean of Tianjin Bohai Vocational Technology College that helped establish the Thailand Luban Workshop, said the greater the difficulty, the more precious this friendship became. "The Luban Workshop will always be a bridge linking the Chinese and Thai people," Yu said.

China will surely defeat the novel coronavirus with the joint efforts of the Chinese people, Yu added.