Despite the pandemic, the city transported facilities on time and gave online lectures and training courses to teachers and students in African countries.

Zhang Jinguo, vice-president of the Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences which established the Nigerian Luban Workshop, said: "Many teachers provided online tutoring guides for leading laboratories and helped test the equipment online. They often work until dawn."

Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah, president of the University of Abuja, said: "The workshop has not only helped the university rank top in vocational education training in Nigeria, but also helped it rank among the world-leading universities."

Hassan Mohamed, deputy general manager of the Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway, said in a previous interview the Luban Workshop will provide strong support for high-quality technical skills training, consequently improving the capacity of railway staff to better perform their work.