On March 24, 2025, Maple Nkanwa, Chairman of the South African Working Group on Skills Development, Director of the Education and Training Department of the Ministry of Higher Education and Training of South Africa, Mamela Lutuli, CEO of Take Note Information Technology Company, and Sembiso Mulango, Project Manager of the South African Working Group on Skills Development, Applied Technology and Innovation of the BRICS Business Council, visited Zhonghui Yunqi Technologies Group Co., Ltd.

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At the meeting, President Howard Bian extended a warm welcome to the delegation from the Ministry of Education of South Africa, and expressed his desire to gain an in-depth understanding of the development status, talent training mode and industrial needs of skills education in South Africa through this exchange. He emphasized that based on this understanding, the two sides will further explore South Africa's development demands in the field of skills education, as well as the complementary advantages of Zhonghui Group in skills training, competition support and integration of production and education. He pointed out that Zhonghui Group looks forward to establishing a long-term and stable strategic cooperative relationship with South African educational institutions, jointly exploring the innovative training mode of "skills + employment", providing systematic solutions for the skills improvement of South African youth and the quality improvement of skills education, and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results.

Subsequently, Chairman Maple Nkanwa introduced in detail the current popularization of skills education in South Africa and the challenges it faces. She stressed that South Africa is actively promoting the development of skills education to meet the market demand for technical talents. She expressed the hope to cooperate with Zhonghui Group to establish a technical exchange base in South Africa, so as to promote the extensive sharing and optimal allocation of educational resources, and then improve the overall level and quality of skills education in South Africa.

Ms. Mamela Luthuli pointed out that based on the current development of vocational colleges in South Africa, she hopes to establish a long-term and stable cooperative relationship with Zhonghui Group and introduce customized AI and software development course resources. She believes that these resources will help South African students systematically learn and master cutting-edge technical knowledge and practical skills, thus enhancing their employment competitiveness and innovation ability. She believes that this kind of cooperation can significantly promote the overall improvement of South Africa's skills education level, and train more high-quality technical talents for South Africa who meet market demand.

Mr. Sembiso Mulango gave an in-depth analysis of the current uneven distribution of educational resources in South Africa, highlighting the significant gaps in the field of skills education. He expressed the hope that with the support of Zhonghui Group, a series of directional skills training programs can be tailored for South African teenagers, imparting cutting-edge technical knowledge and practical skills, helping them improve their personal abilities, improving the quality of overall skills education, and at the same time enhancing the employment competitiveness of young people, laying a solid foundation for their future career development, thus promoting the sustainable development of South Africa's social economy.

This visit not only deepened the mutual understanding between Zhonghui Group and the South African Ministry of Education, but also laid a solid foundation for the establishment of long-term cooperative relations between the two sides. The two sides reached a consensus that Zhonghui Group will provide technical training and guidance for South African experts and players on website technology projects, mobile application development projects and software testing projects of the World Skills Competition. In addition, Zhonghui Group will also sign a cooperation agreement with Take Note Information Technology Company to provide it with professional vocational skills training in two key areas: software development and artificial intelligence.

In order to express his best wishes for cooperation, Chairman Bian Jihai specially presented carefully prepared gifts to Chairman Maple Nkanwa, Ms. Mamela Luthuli and Mr. Sembiso Mulango, symbolizing the cooperation between the two parties. A good start and expectations for common development in the future.