Bridging the Belt and Road
Confucius Institutes, Luban Workshops connect China and Central Asia through language and skills
Updated: 2026-10-13 10:14
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The two-track approach — language and culture through Confucius Institutes, practical skills through Luban Workshops — reflects a deliberate strategy to fuse investment with education and infrastructure with human capital.
As the students in Tashkent making mooncakes and the robotics trainees in Astana show, the Belt and Road is not only about connectivity between ports and pipelines. It is also about the quiet, daily work of building bridges between people — and the skills that will let them cross those bridges on their own.
CHINA DAILY-XINHUA
