The final of the 2025 World Vocational College Skills Competition was held in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Friday.
Themed "Skilled Youth, Shining Future," the event brought together over 33,000 contestants from 76 countries across six continents. Six teams participated in the final of the competition, with the one from Jinhua University of Vocational Technology in east China's Zhejiang Province garnering the championship.
The most prominent highlight during the competition was that it allowed contestants to select their own projects based on real-world work scenarios to address practical issues encountered in daily production and life.
"Our project is designed to tackle industry bottlenecks, such as complex production processes and high costs of raw material procurement in the actual chemical production process. Only those who master operating skills, understand principles, and do well in innovation can truly become exceptional innovative talents in high-end chemical engineering," said Wei Biao, a contestant.
For the first time, the competition introduced divisions internationally, establishing four overseas competition zones respectively in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa and Europe.
"In light of the diverse industrial distributions of different countries and Chinese enterprises' cooperation on production capacity cooperation in the countries concerned, we will continue to pursue improvement for China's vocational education to go overseas and for Chinese enterprises to actively participate in global production capacity cooperation," said Peng Binbai, director of the Department of Vocational and Adult Education at the Chinese Ministry of Education.
Final of World Vocational College Skills Competition 2025 held in Tianjin
