Welding workers to receive training at university

Welding workers from a steelmaker will receive a three-month professional training course at a top Chinese university to update their knowledge and skills.

Starting on Sunday, Tsinghua University, based in Beijing and famous for its welding engineering technology education, will provide the course to 22 workers from China's leading heavyweight steelmaker Shougang Group.

The program was initiated during last year's annual session of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China when Liu Hong, a welding worker from Shougang, called for more education programs to first line workers in China.

Liu, who has worked as a welding worker for 24 years, said on Sunday that workers need to update their knowledge because the new technology changes very fast and lots of them face difficulties.

Pai Jiluan, an expert of welding engineering and an academic at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will lead a team of 13 teachers from Tsinghua University.

Organizers said the program is a part a series of courses at the university and more professional training will offered to different types of workers.