Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, September 26th: Some people built pavilions, some dug holes to create landscaping, some made fondant pandas, and some carefully polished door panels... Entering the venue of the 48th World Skills Competition, with 64 events and more than a thousand contestants, the reporter didn't know which hands to look at first.
Different from the shouts and shouts in the sports arena, and different from the breathless silence in the examination room, at the WorldSkills Competition, the spectators walking and stopping between the competition venues are only a few meters away from the contestants.
The reporter noticed an interesting detail: almost all the players’ operating desks were adjacent to the visiting passage. This means that young players are not just participating in a competition, but also a performance that is watched. A completely different sense of tension and pressure filled the air.
In the baking and sugar art/pastry making competition venues, the audience is separated by transparent baffles and can't wait to watch the contestants' skills "face to face"; in the flower art and jewelry processing venues, there are no high baffles, but the crisp sound of pruning flower branches and the fine polishing of metal materials The voices of all players can be heard clearly; digital interactive media design, software testing and other competitions based on computer operations even project the players' computer images in real time on the display screen facing the audience. Every stroke and every code is fully visible to the audience.
Among the people watching, there are opponents who are about to play next, students from the same major who have come to learn from their experience, experts who provide technical support at the stadium, and even more spectators like reporters who may not be able to see the "knowledge" but can still watch the "lively".
You can see the action, but you may not be able to tell the outcome. The competition between masters under the gaze of others is a test of one's kung fu.
Zhou Yuxuan, a professional spectator watching the horticulture competition, is also a horticulture student. He told reporters that all contestants in the competition constructed according to the same drawing, and the height error of the rockery and landscaping could not exceed a few millimeters. "It is impossible to see it with the naked eye, and you have to cut stones, create water features, and plant green plants. It requires speed and quality, and it is also a test for the physical strength of the contestants."
In the fine woodworking competition area, on-site technical support Lu Weiping directed the reporter's attention to the mortise and tenon joints: "Basically you can't see it, there is only a line." Putting together the wooden parts is just the beginning, and the verticality and flatness must withstand scrutiny. What may seem like "almost" to a layman is here, but everything is exquisite.
The nail art sub-item of the beauty project falls on the fingertips. Liu Jiajia, an expert on the national team of the beauty event at the WorldSkills Competition, said that the angles of the smile lines on the ten nails of the French manicure in the competition must be exactly the same, which all depends on hand painting and eyesight. This year's Chinese team's contestants have been practicing for more than three years.
You have to have a steady hand and a clock in your heart.
When a reporter asked what the difficulty of the baking competition was, Kim Banfield, a competition expert from Australia, repeatedly said: "Time is still time." He explained that once the bread is in the oven, you must have a good work plan to ensure that everything goes smoothly. Behind the aroma of bread are time passes that cannot be missed.
Also racing against time is Qiu Shubin, a 22-year-old Chinese player in the jewelry processing event. This project adopts a "total blind question" competition system. The questions will be announced only after the start of the competition. From reading the drawings to welding and polishing, you need to make quick judgments and stabilize your skills. In order to adapt to the rhythm of the game in advance, he also participated in the warm-up match before the game, polishing his skills and adjusting his condition in simulated actual combat, so as to be fully prepared for his official debut.
In the arena, crowds of people were coming and going, and the young players were calm and relaxed. In their gazes, they returned their attention to a seam, a curve, and a oven of bread. Interestingly, there were many primary and secondary school students in the audience at the competition. They not only watched with great interest, but also walked into the "Try Your Skills" booth to experience the skills and feel the important role of skills in life.
At the slightest moment, the young players compete for their skills; a few steps away, the young spectators admire the superb skills, which may be the value and charm brought by skills.
