On the afternoon of November 30, the closing ceremony of the final of the 2018 China skills competition -- "shengquan cup" the fourth national casting industry vocational skills competition was held at the incubation base of tangtang industrial park in jiahe county, hunan province, marking the successful conclusion of the three-day competition.

Casting, in jiahe folk called "sand", the old known as "pouring molten iron".Golden harvest people do casting has 1000 years of history, in the historical period, the highest peak golden harvest all kinds of foundry enterprises reached more than 700 people founded, systems, areas of guangdong, guangdong development bank more than one thousand kinds of products more than 40 classes, occupy 40% market share, "pearl river delta" region, and exported to Europe, America, southeast Asia, the foundry industry output value to GDP, fiscal revenue, contribution rate of more than 30% of urban residents income, has created one of the famous "casting xiang".In 2012, jiahe was awarded the title of "jiangnan casting capital" by China casting association, and "China forging town" by China forging (pressing) association in 2015.In recent years, based on the advantages of casting resources, jiahe actively ADAPTS to the new requirements of ecology, environmental protection and supply-side structural reform, takes green and intelligent as the standard, equipment manufacturing and precision hardware as the direction, strives for change in the process of innovation, and promotes the traditional forging and casting industry to move forward quickly to modern equipment manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing.

Since the contest was officially launched on September 27, 2018 in yifu building, no. 1 middle school of jiahe county, it has received positive response and high attention from participating regional associations and enterprises.Under the careful organization of local foundry associations and enterprises, more than 1000 foundry employees participated in the competition.After fierce competition in the preliminaries and semi-finals, 162 contestants finally came to the final.The 162 contestants from hunan, hubei, guangdong, guangxi, jiangxi, guizhou, shanxi, hebei, jiangsu and other provinces and autonomous regions, they have been engaged in casting decades of "veteran", but also just a few years into the "rookie" competition let them together, each show their skills, a higher level.

At the scene of the competition, each contestant showed his or her highest level and meticulously operated every step.

"With the rapid development of the domestic equipment manufacturing industry, China has ranked first in the world in terms of the number of casting enterprises and casting output for 18 consecutive years."Zhang libo, President of the China foundry association, said he hoped the competition would further improve the quality of highly skilled talents in foundry enterprises and foster and promote the spirit of craftsmen in the foundry industry.

"In order to maximize the guarantee the skills competition of the fair and justice, we as far as possible on the sports ground adopted some common content, using the same criteria, the same conditions, such as location, equipment, test castings, etc., to maintain the consistency, strive to be the result of the match scientific and fair."Referees wang jun is introduced, and the competition is divided into theory and field of two parts, the field is divided into modelling (core) and the casting mold skill competition, including modelling (core) point of the resin sand of cast steel, cast iron resin sand and clay sand 3 competition group, such as mold point for precision casting, die casting, sand casting, such as three competition group, mold design to set the difficulty coefficient.

"This is my first time to participate in such a national competition. Although I am a little nervous, I still have confidence in my skills."He quanyong of jiahe is only 38 years old, but he has been engaged in casting industry for 16 years.

"Maybe it's because I'm too worried. I'm not very satisfied with my work today."Duan ke, from deyang, sichuan province, said he has been involved in the foundry industry for eight years. Today, the two-hour competition is quite tight, and he used to make large pieces, which usually takes about a week to complete.At the same time, he believes that the foundry industry needs the spirit of craftsman to keep improving, because some of the foundry stations need to be done by hand, unlike mechanical manufacturing, which can be standardized, so they need to be strict with their own requirements, keep improving.

Contestants complete the steps meticulously.

"This competition falls on jiahe, which can further enhance the popularity of jiahe casting industry and promote the better and faster transformation and upgrading of our casting industry, which has been in the extensive stage for a long time."Kuang ningyong, director of jiahe hongde electromechanical foundry co., LTD., said that in recent years, under the guidance of the government, jiahe has transformed from the traditional extensive industry to automation and upgraded, and gradually moved closer to the complete machine equipment from the manufacturing of blank and individual parts.

The judges ruled carefully.

"The scale of the competition is the largest in history, the competition is the most standardized, the final venue is the most regular and the organization is the most rigorous."Zhi xiaoheng, deputy supervisor of China foundry association and director of the competition executive committee, spoke highly of the competition and expressed sincere gratitude to chenzhou municipal committee, municipal government, jiahe county committee, county government and other relevant units for their strong support.

This contest by China foundry association, the China employment training technical instruction center, jiahe people government, China foundry association to undertake vocational education and training center, hunan casting association, the association of hubei province casting, casting industry association of guangdong province and guangxi casting association, jiangxi province, guizhou casting foundry association association.

Competition from jinan holy spring group co., LTD., the sole named support, and the China foundry association education training work committee, the national Open University institute of casting, mechanical industry vocational skills appraisal guidance centers, cast in the education of science and technology network, jinan aini Chester software co., LTD., Beijing cast the future education technology co., LTD., mechanical industry highly skilled personnel training base of support.