China’s top vocational talents show their stuff at skills contest
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A CONTEST kicked off at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center yesterday to select Chinese participants for the WorldSkills Competition.
Hundreds of participants are competing in 15 skill areas, including auto body repair, print media technology, electrical installation, cabinetwork and floristry. The two-day event is organized by the Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and other government departments.
Top winners will go on to compete for spots in the Chinese national team, which will represent the country at the 44th WorldSkills Competition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in October 2017.
Competitors must not be older than 22 during the final competition. All participants in the current selection contest are younger than 21. They include students from vocational schools and young workers.
Among the competitors, 38 are from Shanghai. Yang Huifang, from Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, is one of them.
“I have been receiving training every workday since last October and I will follow every step carefully in the whole process,” She told Shanghai Daily ahead of the competition. “I think doing my best is the foundation for all success.”
Yang says she’s lucky since her school has two teachers who are previous WorldSkills Competition prize-winners.
Zhang Shuping, a silver medal winner in the print media technology category in 2015, said the competition is not only a challenge of vocational skills, but also of willpower.
“The world competition takes four days and you have to have perseverance and dedication,” she said.
Zhang said her skills, confidence and willpower all improved by taking part in the competition.
Next year will be the fourth time for China to send a delegation to the international event described as the “Olympics of manual skills for young people.” The country joined WorldSkills International in 2010.
Chinese competitors took five gold, six silver and four bronze medals during the event in 2015. These included two silvers won by competitors from Shanghai.
China plans to compete in all 45 programs at next year’s WorldSkills Competition. Selection contests are being carried out in 12 other cities across the country.
Meanwhile, China also plans to apply to host the 46th WorldSkills Competition.
Wang Yu, director of the personnel education office at the Shanghai Economy and Information Technology Development Commission, said Shanghai need young vocational talent to contribute to the city’s development and industrial upgrading.
Attending international events like the WorldSkills Competition will help promote vocational education by exposing contestants to the latest vocational developments in other countries, he added.
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