28 Thai students study high-speed rail technology

On March 8, the Guangxi Liuzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College held the opening ceremony for the first batch of 28 Thai international students. These Thai students came to study China’s high-speed rail technology.

With the continuous deepening of cooperation between China and Thailand in the high-speed rail field, the Liuzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College connected with many Thai universities in order to resolve problem of lack of talent for local railways in Thailand.

Zhou Lan, Director of Academic Affairs Department of Liuzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College, stated that in 2015, they signed an inter-school cooperation agreement with the Thai Ayutthaya Institute of Business and Technology determining that the “1+1.5” cooperation method should be used to train international students.

After studying in Thailand for one year and having qualified and obtained corresponding Chinese language level certificates, Thai students can come to China to study for one and a half years as long as they meet the visa requirements. “After all the studies in China and Thailand are completed, qualifying students will receive diplomas from universities in both China and Thailand. This project is welcomed by students in Thailand,” said Zhou Lan.

The 28 international students will study high speed rail related majors, mainly including railway signal automation, railway engineering technology and so on.

20-year-old Sutama came from Sachaburi, Thailand. She just arrived at the Liuzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College to study and was very excited. She said that in the future, China-Thailand railway cooperation will become more in-depth and the Thai railway industry has a promising future. She wanted to study hard here and bring the related technology of high-speed rail development in China back to Thailand.

So far, the school has set up five “training classes for vocational teachers in rail transportation”, and trained more than 70 Thai teachers. The cooperation between the college and Thailand in the field of rail transit is continuing to deepen.

Source: Xinhua; Editor: Wang Shixue