The first group of students, who enrolled in 2019, will graduate from Djibouti Luban Workshop this year. They will work in the operations department of the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, Djibouti's first modern railway that connects the country and Ethiopia.

File photo taken in 2019 shows students having class in the Djibouti Luban Workshop. [Photo by Lyu Qiang for chinadaily.com.cn]

The Djibouti Luban Workshop, the first of its kind in Africa, was jointly built by the Tianjin Railway Technical and Vocational College, the Tianjin First Commercial School, the Djibouti Industrial and Commercial School and the China Civic Engineering Construction Corp.

The workshop serves as a center of excellence in four majors related to railway engineering and commercial trading. It offers high-quality academic education and technical training to African youths.