The 2006 Training Course on Gardening and Horticulture for related technicians has completed at XTBG on August 30. The 26-day curriculum was composed of lectures, field practice, demonstration, study tours, discussion and final test.

A certificate was awarded to each participant upon his or her successful completion of the curriculum. In 2006, 95 participants from Xishuangbanna prefecture and Simao prefecture accomplished the training.

XTBG was designated as an Occupational Skill Testing Authority by the Department of Labor and Social Security of Yunnan Province in 1997. Since then, XTBG has hosted training course on gardening and horticulture each year, by making full use of its advantages in landscape planning and designing, horticultural cultivation, seed storage, plant protection, forest science, etc.

Up to now, more than 600 technicians have been assessed by XTBG.