Chinese group offers to set up vocational university

St Fulin Group CPO says training will help meet increasing demand for labour force

BEIJING: China's St Fulin Group has offered to set up a vocational university in Pakistan to meet the ever-increasing demand of skilled labour for the projects being completed under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework.

"At present, we are discussing the details with the officials concerned in Pakistan and the embassy of Pakistan in Beijing and hope for a positive response and cooperation," St Fulin Group CPO Scarlet said on Monday.

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In an interview with APP, she said, "China is the best in vocational education in the world. In some areas it is better than Germany and Japan and we are ready to impart quality training to Pakistani students in their country."

While acknowledging that Pakistan has good universities and other educational institutions, she stressed that the country needed more vocational training institutions to fulfil the requirement of the manufacturing sector, adding that “Pakistan is country of 200 million people” and everyone could not be provided white collar jobs.
Scarlet said, “At present, China is developing roads and communication infrastructure in Pakistan and there is a high demand for skilled workers for the projects being completed under the CPEC.”

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She informed that St Fulin Group, which has established a permanent office in Pakistan, is jointly working along with the Chinese education ministry and is affiliated with a number of vocational universities and institutes.

The CPO said in the beginning, a two-member delegation would leave for Pakistan and later other delegations would also join.
"We will have discussions with the concerned Pakistani officials and during the meetings, we will share our experience which China achieved in the last 40 years because of its reforms and development strategy."

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The delegation would hold meetings with the officials responsible for setting up industrial parks and visit different universities to show what’s happening in China and how Pakistan could learn from China to make it an industrial giant.

She said that her group was also willing to cooperate in water purification and bringing the CNG machinery and equipment into the Pakistani market as technology was vital for the progress and development of Pakistan.

"Our group also intends to donate some training equipment and machinery to Pakistan and is looking forward to a positive response from Pakistani institutions which are interested in receiving it," she added.

She said her company would work as a bridge to further promote cooperation between China and Pakistan in logistic, vocational training and cultural communication.