Standards Are The Cornerstone Of Skill Development.

The "standard cup" National Sewing machinery industry skills competition, which lasted for half a year and spread across 6 provinces and cities and attracted nearly 500 players, was successfully concluded at the Shanghai New International Expo Center in September 23, 2009. This is the first organized and large-scale vocational skills competition in China's sewing equipment industry, which has far-reaching significance.

"This is a relatively loose, vulnerable and easily overlooked group. They are always guarding the normal operation of clothing production. They are the most caring nannies of equipment, and they are the link between sewing equipment industry and end users. They are young, enthusiastic, eager to learn and advance. Their dedication to this business has touched me very much. Talking about the feelings of the contest, He Ye, executive vice president of the China Sewing Machinery Association, is excited.
　　
Market demand for talents is further developing towards diversification, and society needs all kinds of roles. But in many people's opinion, going to university seems to be the only way to become successful, but in fact it is not. Under the current financial crisis, many enterprises have laid off a lot of jobs, and many university graduates can not find suitable jobs. In sharp contrast, many provinces and cities have seen varying degrees of "shortage of skilled workers". Skilled personnel is an important part of the talent team. It plays an irreplaceable role in speeding up the upgrading and upgrading of the industry, enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises, promoting technological innovation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The sewing equipment industry is a labor-intensive and technology intensive traditional manufacturing industry. The product structure is complex, the manufacturing accuracy is high, and the mechanical and electrical integration is more important. From the manufacturing, assembly, use and maintenance of products, the requirements for professional knowledge and skills of workers are higher. However, due to the lack of professional vocational education, the overall quality of employees in the industry is relatively low, and the phenomenon of technical personnel fault is more serious. From a social point of view, the social status of skilled talents is not high enough, and the social atmosphere of respecting labour and advocating skills is not strong enough. Many factors have caused the shortage of highly skilled talents in today's industry.

Upgrading made in China is inseparable from upgrading blue collar workers. In recent years, vocational education has been highly valued by the Party Central Committee and the State Council. As early as 2005, the State Council made a decision to vigorously develop vocational education, and took vocational education as an important foundation for economic and social development and the strategic focus of educational work. Since 2003, the Sino Japanese Association has put the work of Vocational and technical talents construction on the agenda, and has set up the industry vocational skills appraisal system, compiled the textbook of sewing machine assembly and maintenance, compiled examination papers, set up examination questions storehouse, and sponsored the vocational skills competition. The "standard cup" National Sewing machinery vocational skills competition is an important measure for the industry to implement the state's efforts to further strengthen the work of highly skilled talents and speed up the construction of skilled personnel. It helps to form an industry atmosphere that respects labor, skills and education. More importantly, with the help of skills competition, we find the joint between sewing machine industry and garment industry. He Ye said.

Innovation is always a key factor for the sustainable development of an enterprise. In the sewing equipment industry, where product assimilation is very common, enterprises must have certain technological innovation ability on their products if they want to win more users. In 2009, it was "the year of promoting enterprise innovation capability construction" in sewing equipment industry. Improving the professional quality of skilled workers is one of the tasks to promote the construction of enterprise's innovative ability. "We all know the importance of user needs for product innovation, but there are not many enterprises that actually implement and put into action. China Sewing association has been looking for the docking point of the two industries, so as to understand more about the demand and demand for sewing equipment in garment industry more, more accurately and timely. The group of sewing equipment maintenance workers is just the "middleman" of the two industries. They understand the specific requirements of garment enterprises for sewing equipment, and clearly understand the performance and advantages and disadvantages of domestic equipment. They aspire to be concerned, hoping to have a platform to prove themselves. The holding of skills competition will certainly arouse their enthusiasm for learning knowledge and improving their skills, which is conducive to promoting technological integration and interaction between the two industries. He Ye said.

The construction of vocational skills teams in the industry is a long-term and arduous task. In order to further expand the scale of vocational training and appraisal in the industry, the China Sewing Machinery Association has formulated the "five year plan for vocational skills training and appraisal in the industry", and has set up a unified and well established industry vocational skills training and evaluation system in the whole country, and comprehensively promoted the vocational training and appraisal work in the industry.