Dual Champions Emerge; Competition Concludes, Forging Craftsmanship

On November 30, the 2025 Pan-Yangtze River Delta "Wuchuan Cup" Welding Skills Competition for the Shipbuilding Industry concluded successfully.

As a significant initiative to implement the national strategies of building a strong maritime country and a strong manufacturing nation, this year's competition brought together nearly 100 welding elites from 25 teams across six provinces and one municipality in the Pan-Yangtze River Delta region. The contest was intense and spectacular, ultimately giving rise to a group of technical benchmarks and role models. Top masters emerged victorious from the fierce competition, clinching the top honors.

Champions were crowned in both the Stainless Steel Pipe & Aluminum Alloy category and the Carbon Steel category, showcasing the exceptional skills and professional demeanor of ship welders in the new era.

At the closing ceremony, Competition Chief Judge Zhang Shuaimou announced the results.

The competition featured practical projects such as "One Material, Two Welding Forms," "One Welding Form, Two Materials," and "Robot-Controlled Welding." These comprehensively assessed the contestants' welding precision, efficiency, application of green welding technologies, and adherence to safe production standards, fully reflecting the high-standard requirements for welders' comprehensive competencies.

The award ceremony brought the atmosphere to its peak.

Peng Jingjin from Wuhu Team 7 won the first prize in the Stainless Steel Pipe & Aluminum Alloy category with solid and stable skills. Liu Chunshan from the Weihai team clinched the top spot in the Carbon Steel category. Wuhu Team 3 secured the team first prize.

The award-winning contestants held their certificates and trophies, their faces beaming with pride and joy, as continuous applause filled the venue, creating a fervent atmosphere.

This competition was a deep practice of integrating industry and education, and of schools and enterprises co-hosting events, by Wuhu Shipyard.

It provided a stage for welding elites to exchange skills, centrally showcased the achievements in building the regional welder workforce, and accurately aligned with the cutting-edge technologies and standard requirements of the shipbuilding industry. By grasping the real needs of enterprises, it offered a valuable opportunity and a practical model for promoting the reform of education and teaching and optimizing talent cultivation modes. Together, they explored a new collaborative education path for the integration of "industry, academia, research, and application."

At the end of the closing ceremony, all attending leaders, award-winning contestants, and staff took a group photo, capturing this precious moment witnessing the growth of craftsmen and the development of the industry.

Wuhu Shipyard, with its century-old heritage, will thoroughly implement the requirements for building the industrial workforce in the new era. Under the guidance of the Anhui Provincial National Defense, Postal and Telecommunications Trade Union and the Wuhu Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, it will deeply practice national strategies. Using competitions as a driver, and through "promoting learning, research, and production through competition," it will actively promote the deep integration of innovation chains, industrial chains, and talent chains in key technological fields such as welding, establishing a new paradigm of joint talent cultivation involving enterprises, universities, and the government.

This will accelerate the cultivation of new quality productive forces that meet the needs of the shipbuilding industry, forge national defense shipbuilding craftsmen for the new era, and inject a continuous stream of solid technical strength into the manufacturing of major national projects and the construction of new industrialization.