China News Service, Chongqing, September 30 (Chen Yuan) On the 30th, the closing ceremony of the electromechanical equipment installation and operation and maintenance track (higher vocational school group, secondary vocational school group) of the 2026 World Vocational College Skills Competition Finals was held in Chongqing. Chongqing Industrial Vocational and Technical University and Chongqing Electric Power College won the gold medal in the higher vocational group. Team 1 of Chongqing Yubei Vocational Education Center won the gold medal in the secondary vocational school group and qualified to enter the finals qualifying competition.
It is understood that from September 25th to 30th, 132 participating teams from more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country competed on the same stage. With the theme of "Dazzling Youth with Skills to Create the Future", the competition focuses on the equipment manufacturing industry, focusing on key areas such as intelligent manufacturing, new energy equipment, elevator operation and maintenance, refrigeration and air conditioning, and smart livelihood transformation. It comprehensively examines students' core skills in mechanical and electrical equipment installation and operation and maintenance, strengthens teamwork and craftsmanship, and promotes the integration of on-the-job, course, and competition certificates.
During the competition, each participating team completed the project tasks efficiently, competed in practical skills, adaptability and teamwork, and comprehensively demonstrated the practical application of new technologies, new processes and new standards. This competition selected 8 gold medals for the higher vocational school group and 5 gold medals for the secondary vocational school group.
Li Jinyu, member of the Education Working Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and deputy director of the Municipal Education Commission, said that as the main battlefield for cultivating craftsmen, skilled craftsmen and high-skilled talents in the country, vocational colleges must adhere to the direction of skill-based education at the critical stage of the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan", promote the results of the competition to be transformed into endogenous power for vocational education reform, continue to polish Chongqing's vocational education brand, and empower the construction of an educational power.
"The competition is based on real problems, restores real scenes, and tests real skills. The competition projects are closely related to the real needs of front-line positions, and are examined from aspects such as project design, work flow, core skills, and main results. In the competition, students are skilled in skills, complex problems are well analyzed, and division of labor and collaboration are smooth. Some students can directly connect with the actual situation of enterprise production and people's livelihood transformation, fully demonstrating their comprehensive professional abilities." Wang Lihuan, the referee of the secondary vocational school group, said.
It is reported that this competition fully embodies the purpose of the competition of "promoting learning through competition and promoting training through competition". It is an important platform for deepening cross-regional and high-level vocational education exchanges and mutual learning. It comprehensively tests the comprehensive abilities of the contestants, provides practical reference for the improvement and upgrading of mechanical and electrical majors nationwide and in-depth collaboration between schools and enterprises, and injects new momentum into the high-quality development of mechanical and electrical operation and maintenance vocational education.
