The opening ceremony was conducted online and attended by Mr. Liu Yutong, ILO-China Partnership Programme Manager, Ms. Chen Haina, Vice principal of Guangzhou Industrial and Trade Technician College, Mr. Seng Sokheng, Vice president of National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia and together with other colleagues of the two schools, with a total of 20 participants.

Guangzhou Industrial and Trade Technician College and the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia signed bilateral MoU in July 2022 to cooperate on the platform of South-South Cooperation Skills Development Network. Since then, the two sides conducted several discussions on the specific content, form and targeted students, and finally decided to take mobile robot as the first project of exchange. The training would help enhance the capacity of NPIC’s trainers to be well-prepared for the ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) which will take place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in Aug 2023.
After the opening ceremony, the mobile robot training course of the National Institute of Technology of Cambodia officially kicked off. The training lasted for 14 days. According to the needs of the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia, the college carefully planned the training courses, and invited experts who had guided Chinese contestants to win the gold medal in the mobile robot contest globally. Through the combination of theoretical training and practical demonstration, it vividly and intuitively provided trainees with professional knowledge and technical training.