Wu Zhigang gives handson training to Ethiopian veterinarian students

in ethiopia, chinese veterinarians share their hands-on practical experience with their students to upgrade the country’s breeding industry

when he set foot in the Hawassa region of central Ethiopia to train local agricultural technicians, Chinese veterinarian Wu Zhigang had an unexpected encounter: he met Damtew Dorsiso, one of his former students.

自从党的十八届五中全会通过《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十三个五年规划的建议》后，我国学术界和理论界关于“共享发展理念”的研究不断得到发展，为人们准确把握习近平共享发展理念奠定了重要的理论参考。但是对共享发展理念研究大多停留在理论上，过于宏观不够细化，导致践行过程中理论与实践不协调。从2013年至2018年11月初，在知网上以“共享发展理念研究”为篇名和主题的研究文献共821篇:其中期刊论文503篇，优秀硕博论文53篇，报纸及会议论文265篇。各种理论成果从不同角度表达了专家学者对于现实社会发展的关注。

Dorsiso told him that he now had an enviable job. After graduating in August 2017 from Alage Agricultural, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET)College, he became a veterinarian with the training center for farmers and breeders in Wendo Genet District. Wu was glad to see that his student had made good progress, while Dorsiso, for his part, expressed his wish to join another of Wu’s training courses, if possible.

第六，加强肠道的调理。养鸡就是养肠道，肠道的健康程度决定了鸡群的营养吸收能力和抗病水平的高低，肠道微生态系统的稳定关系重大，根据鸡群的肠道状况，适当的添加微生态制剂，用以调节肠道菌群平衡，提高饲料的消化利用率，减少肠道有害菌的数量，进而达到降低料肉比和料蛋比，减少肠道疾病，提高经济效益的目的。

据《财经》报道，阿里内部对于杨伟东的调查已经持续一段时间，杨伟东此次涉嫌贪腐的项目主要集中在优酷于2018年推出的“这就是”系列综艺，主要是关于综艺项目的收支问题。该系列综艺以《这！就是街舞》打头阵，后陆续推出了《这！就是灌篮》等。

Moreover, Chinese experts conduct surveys on breeding conditions in farms located nearby the college. They also use their free time to expand the university’s training field. Outside the campus, Wu and his colleagues are also involved in local communities, through training and demonstration projects. It is during one of these agricultural technical training sessions, lasting one week, that Wu met by chance his former student in Hawassa in January 2018.

Practice comes first

Wu, aware of the critical importance of having the right tools to do a good job,decided to follow up with the university’s warehouses. It was there that he was given some unused surgical kits and examination tools which he then used to teach students and colleagues.

“This also means that students often do not have the chance to treat sick animals and that their knowledge is mostly theoretical. The most important thing, therefore, is to develop their practical knowledge,” Wu told ChinAfrica.

Wu gives hands-on training courses on a daily basis to his students in the veterinary hospital affiliated to Alage ATVET College.At first, his students were a little afraid of touching sick animals, he said, but after a few months, they became more comfortable, and were already able to perform routine operations. After graduating from the college, some even became qualified veterinarians in their hometowns, as was the case for Dorsiso.

Agriculture and livestock breeding are the two economic pillars of Ethiopia, which is home to the largest livestock population on the African continent. However, because of the shortage of fodder and the disastrous effects of various diseases, the local breeding industry has long been struggling with a difficult situation. In addition, few colleges are able to set up real veterinary medicine courses, as the knowledge of most teachers is limited to theory. Another challenge facing Ethiopia is that there is not a single veterinary drug manufacturing factory in the country. Medicines and related equipment for veterinary needs are, therefore, insufficient, expensive and highly dependent on imports and foreign aid. When an animal gets sick, its breeder often has no choice but to let it die due to lack of medicine.

For the equipment still lacking, the Chinese expert decided to make it himself.During a routine diagnostic examination ahead of a clinical surgery, he realized that there were no surgical drapes, used for isolating and disinfecting the incision area during operations. With the help of his Ethiopian colleagues, he bought fabrics in a market located some 40 km away and made 12 drapes that they then donated to the university.

太阳晒在身上暖烘烘的，谁不喜欢晒太阳呢？我真想变成一只猫，与可乐在阳光下嬉戏，伴橙汁儿在阳光下散步，再到阳光下打上几个滚儿，我便别无所求。我有时还真搞不懂我自己，为什么会羡慕两只猫。

On the first day he arrived in Ethiopia in October 2016, Wu immediately got down to action. Within a few hours, he had successfully conducted a difficult operation on a sick cow, saving the animal. Such diligence and professionalism immediately earned him great repute from his Ethiopian colleagues, some of whom had received specialist training in China. During their daily exchanges, his colleagues shared with him their concerns regarding the lack of teaching tools, surgical materials and even textbooks, hoping that the Chinese experts could help them solve some of these problems.

It was the second time for Wu to join the Chinese agricultural expert mission to Ethiopia. Like the first time from October 2016 to August 2017, the experienced veterinarian from Hebei Province in north China was dispatched to Alage ATVET College,just south of the capital Addis Ababa. This is where he, along with other Chinese and Ethiopian instructors, gives training courses to about 1,500 students in the Department of Veterinary Medicine.

在工厂机械化生产条件下，利用废气处理设备可实现无害排放。美术类院校的版画实验室或各类版画工坊，体现为个体手工制作的特点，废气产生的数量少且没有持续性。并且，因为制作者需观察腐蚀过程而进行开放式操作，使管理变得困难：废气难以收集，废气处理设备难管理等。因此，此类规模较小的工作场所，适宜使用不产生有毒气体的蚀刻剂，如氯化铁、硫酸铜等，避免废气污染。

this also means that students often do not have the chance to treat sick animals and that their knowledge is mostly theoretical.the most important thing, therefore, is to develop their practical knowledge.

WU ZHIGANG Chinese veterinarian

Wu gives a demonstration to his students

Wu teaches local farmers in a demonstration center

Deeply appreciated efforts

Wu is part of the 18th mission of Chinese experts to provide agricultural training courses at Alage ATVET College. Since the first mission in 2001, their goal has remained unchanged: to train high-quality Ethiopian agricultural technicians and improve the education system in the field. And so far,the results are convincing.

Genanew Abera Teshome, who graduated from Alage ATVET College in 2016, now works as an instructor at the college’s Animal Science Department. As he told China Daily, there is a big difference between what he studied in college and what he learned by working shoulder to shoulder with Chinese experts.

“I learned only theory, almost nothing practical [in university],” he told China Daily. I’ve gained many practical skills while at the Alage ATVET College from the Chinese experts. I enjoy working with them.Now I help them with their work, and I can help society after I leave the college.”

“It’s the Chinese Government and Chinese instructors who started the training program here. It’s been really supportive. In agricultural technologies, we’re very poor;we don’t have many instructors who can facilitate the training program. It’s because of the Chinese that we’re able to run these programs,” Alage ATVET College Vice Chancellor Temertu Sahlu told China Daily.

“The demonstration centers the Chinese experts have helped set up are very useful for the practical training of students and the transfer of technologies to surrounding communities,” he added, while hoping that his country will welcome even more Chinese experts in the future. In a letter addressed to Ethiopian students, Eyasu Abraha Alle, Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, praised the efforts of the Chinese instructors. According to him, the successful implementation of the agricultural cooperation project has had a major impact on Ethiopia’s political,social and economic development, and has caught the attention of senior officials from both countries, as well as media and international organizations. ca