National vocational skills competition sets off this week
2023-09-16
A grand ceremony is held to inaugurate the second national vocational skills competition on Sept 16, 2023. [Photo by Yang Cheng/chinadaily.com.cn]
The second national vocational skills competition kicked off in Tianjin on Saturday afternoon.
The four-day event has attracted 4,045 contestants from 36 delegations across the country.
Wang Xiaoping, minister of human resources and social security, said: "The competition is the largest in scale and has the highest number of participants, making it the most influential vocational skills competition in the country."
Zhang Gong, mayor of Tianjin, which has a long tradition of nurturing vocational skill personnel, expressed a warm welcome to talented individuals from all over China.
Delegates of the Tianjin team made their presence at the opening ceremony of the event on Saturday. The team, which is composed of 142 members, will take part in the entire 109 contests during the competition. [Photo by Yang Cheng/chinadaily.com.cn]
The participants in the competition range in age from 16 to 58, with an average age of 33.8.
Among them, there are 25 PhD holders and 546 postgraduates.
During the first round of the contest, the participants did not feel too overwhelmed by the national-level competition.
Wang Peng, a contestant from the port of Qingdao, said: "In the remote control port management contest, all participants demonstrated their best skills, and it was not too difficult for us. This event provides an opportunity for us to improve our skills together."
A performance was staged to mark the opening of the competition, running from Saturday to Tuesday. [Photo by Yang Cheng/chinadaily.com.cn]
In some competitions that rarely involve female workers, young female participants were selected from provincial contests to have the opportunity to join the national competition.
Lou Dingyi, a 21-year-old participant from Southwest China's Guizhou province, is one of them.
She will be competing in the concrete construction category and said, "I am proud to compete with male participants and believe that women can have all the opportunities to succeed."
The country has inspired to foster leading vocational personnel and has launched the strategy to boost the skilled vocational personnel.
Li Ancai, director of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, said: "Amid the revitalization of Northeast China, Liaoning has taken the lead to train top vocational personnel and has fostered up to 5.39 million persons and among them, 1.37 million have been designated as leading level ones."
Delegates and judges made a vow for fair competitions and judgement during the events at the opening ceremony. [Photo b Yang Cheng/chinadaily.com.cn]
A contest in remote port operation control was held in Tianjin port on Saturday. [Provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Judges examine the loading and offloading of port cargo contest in Tianjin Port on Saturday. [Provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
