Opening Ceremony of 2022 BRICS Skills Competition Kick-Off Stage Held in Xiamen

To implement President Xi Jinping's initiative of organizing vocational skills competitions at the 13th BRICS Leaders' Meeting, the Ministry of Education, together with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the BRICS Business Council, the Xiamen Municipal People's Government and other departments, have set up the Organizing Committee of the Competition, which will be officially launched in March 2022 as the BRICS Vocational Skills Competition. The Competition is divided into two phases: the launching competition and the official final, focusing on intelligent manufacturing, digital economy, new industries, new forms of business, new technologies and other key areas to set up 28 competition projects, attracting teachers and students of vocational colleges and universities in BRICS countries to compete on the same stage.

As an important part of the competition, the opening ceremony of the BRICS Skills Competition Kick-Off Stage was held in Xiamen on May 24 in a combination of online and offline methods. Fang Jun, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges of the Ministry of Education, Liu Xinchang, Deputy Director of the Department of Vocational Capacity Building of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and Liao Huasheng, Vice Mayor of the People's Government of Xiamen, attended and delivered speeches at the Opening Ceremony, which was presided over by Dr. Liu Zhenying, Chairman of the BRICS Business Council Skills Development Working Group. The Opening Ceremony received high attention both at home and abroad, with more than 600 guests, experts, judges, coaches and players from BRICS countries attending the event. The Opening Ceremony was synchronously broadcas live on Cloud Live, Chinese Headlines and other platforms, and attracted 2.1 million online viewers.

The Kick-off Stage set up three competitions of Web technology, machine learning and big data, and rail vehicle technology, with nearly 200 teams from BRICS countries participating. Before the competition, in order to ensure the coordination and unification of the BRICS national standards and the smooth development of the online competition, experts, judges and participating colleges of the five countries jointly studied and negotiated the regulations and standards of the competitions, developed the contents of the competition questions and the operational rules of the online competition, and developed relevant training courses, based on which an online training camp was formed to guide the participating teams to familiarize themselves with the process of the online competition. During the competition, a committee of experts from five countries will be responsible for judging the competition.

This competition innovatively adopts the form of combining online and offline, utilizes modern information technology to effectively transform the competition scenario, breaks the time and space barriers of the international long-distance race, provides a new mode of foreign humanistic exchanges and cooperation during the epidemic, and establishes a new platform for exchanges and cooperation among vocational colleges and enterprises of the five countries. Meanwhile, the unified judging standard of the competition will lay a solid foundation for the formation of a unified skill certification system for BRICS countries in the future.

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