Directors and managers who help run a quarter of the industry in China visited Harrow and Brent to learn about British links between commerce and education.
The 18 delegates from the Chinese Ministry of Machinery Industry were guests of the NW London Training and Enterprise Council as part of a two-week visit to Britain.
They were particularly interested in New Deal and the Tec's work-based training for people out of work for more than six months. As the communist state reforms its economy along more capitalist lines, the promise of jobs for life has been dropped and millions are unemployed.
They visited two of the Tec's trainers, Wimpey Homes and Driving Ambition.
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