World Skills Competition on Site: The Fine Competition Under the Fully Blind Competition Format

The 48th WorldSkills Competition was held in Shanghai, where 64 events and more than a thousand contestants competed on the same stage, attracting large numbers of spectators to watch up close. In the competition, events such as baking, floral design, jewelry making, and fine woodworking all emphasized precision and speed of operation, and the contestants had to complete highly difficult tasks with exacting accuracy. The report mentioned that many events used an open layout close to the audience, and computerrelated events even displayed the contestants’ screens in real time, allowing spectators to directly see every step of the operation. Events such as horticulture, fine woodworking, and beauty care had extremely high requirements for detail; for example, the error in the height of a landscape arrangement could not exceed a few millimeters, and the angle of the smile line in nail art also had to be consistent. Time management was likewise a key factor in winning or losing. The jewelry making event used a “fully blind” competition format, in which contestants had to quickly make judgments and complete processes such as welding and polishing without knowing the task in advance before the competition. There were also many primary and secondary school students participating in experience activities on site, getting a closeup feel for the charm of skills competitions.