A new training school for taxi drivers has been founded in Yiwu to help improve their manners, safe driving skills and knowledge of foreign cultures. In addition the course will be covering self defence skills, emergency response procedures and basic English. This welcome development comes not a moment too soon in my opinion!

Private companies teamed up with government agencies to run the trainning with the aim giving taxi drivers the tools and knowledge to provide a better service for visitors to Yiwu.

The school was founded on June 17th. An estimated 2516 drivers will take part in the intensive training provided thereby October the 20th. The training will be scheduled in the early morning and evenings to fit in with drivers' working hours.

There will be no shortage of taxi's available during this period as the training is staggered to involve only small groups of drivers at any one time.
[2008-06-18 18:07]