The 10th World Youth Wushu Championships had barely concluded in Tianjin recently when a makeshift game broke out on an outdoor basketball court. There was no ball, so a group of teenagers from four different continents chased an empty plastic water bottle instead.
With a record 12.7 million graduates expected this year, China is placing greater emphasis on early career planning and aligning academic training with industry demand to improve employment outcomes, experts have said.
At the third High-Level Conference of the Forum on Global Action for Shared Development held in Beijing on April 22, Tefera Derbew Yimam, Ethiopia's ambassador to China, praised the Luban Workshop as one of Tianjin's most innovative contributions to cooperation on international development.
Officials and entrepreneurs from China and the Canadian province of Alberta explored cooperation in green and low-carbon development during a visit this month by Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack to Tianjin and Wuhan, Hubei province, focusing on sustainable industries, logistics and carbon governance.
Under the observation of a visiting delegation of orthopedic surgeons from Malaysia, Jordan, and Armenia, Cao Jiangang, director of the Department of Sports Injuries and Arthroscopy at Tianjin Hospital, performed an arthroscopic suture repair for a massive rotator cuff tear in just 40 minutes.
Dozens of students and teachers accompanied veterans Wang Gaoyin and Liu Zhuang from Tianjin to Luoyang, Henan province, last week to honor veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53).