On November 27th, the overseas Chinese surpassed heavenly work-the 2020 Kaiping City Construction Engineering·Country Craftsman Skills Competition was held at the Chikan Town Cultural and Sports Service Center to build a platform for Kaiping city construction talents and rural craftsmen to exchange skills, show their style and exchange experience , To excavate traditional craftsmen in the countryside, and further polish the brand of Kaiping Architecture Township.Jiangmen Human Resources and Social Security Bureau Party Secretary and Director Qian Jierun, Kaiping City leaders Xie Changrong, Wu Jianming, and Huang Wanci attended the event and held the launch ceremony for the competition.

At the kick-off ceremony, the attending leading guests presented referee certificates to the referees, watched the promotional video of Kaiping Architecture Township, learned more about the development of the Kaiping construction industry and the construction of the "Chinese Architecture Township" brand, and watched the art wall Production display and tour of the competition venue.

The development of Kaiping construction began in the countryside, and the artisan talents originated from the countryside.Implementing the "Rural Craftsman" project, closely integrating the construction of the rural talent team with the overall planning of rural revitalization and various constructions, and vigorously promoting the spirit of model workers and craftsmen are important measures to promote the development of the construction industry in Kaiping City and implement the rural revitalization strategy.
Jiangmen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau Party Secretary and Director Qian Jierun hopes that the relevant departments of Kaiping City will continue to focus on the development of local industries, make full use of the important carrier of skills competition, and promote the extensive participation of various industries, enterprises and colleges in skills competition activities. Actively explore and train more highly skilled talents and outstanding reserve talents.At the same time, it pays attention to closely integrate the construction of the rural talent team with the overall plan for rural revitalization and various constructions, and promote the revitalization of rural industries and culture with the revitalization of rural talents.
Wu Jianming, deputy mayor of Kaiping City and director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, stated in his speech that Kaiping City will start with the construction of the rural craftsman training system and evaluation system, and strive to carry out more than 500 rural craftsman training by 2022, directly driving 1,500 people Realize employment and entrepreneurship, and give full play to the role of rural craftsmen in leading the inheritance of skills, leading the development of industries, and driving the people to get rich.
The competition was divided into two skill competitions: construction engineering and rural craftsmanship. There were three competitions including masonry project, pasting project, and artistic bricklaying project, which attracted 54 contestants to participate in the competition.

In the construction engineering skills competition, the contestants used the "Trinity" bricklaying method, "thin paste method", cutting and other professional construction skills to create architectural works with Lingnan characteristics.

In the rural craftsman skills competition, the contestants brought the creative skills of overseas Chinese-artistic bricklaying, including landscape flower wall masonry, hollow flower wall masonry, and rotating column masonry. Revive the traditional architectural works of the hometown of overseas Chinese.


After 6 hours of fierce competition, the contestants used rich experience and precise measurement to complete a piece of architectural art with the characteristics of the hometown of overseas Chinese.The judges rated the contestants based on their works and performance. In the end, Luo Gang won the first prize of masonry project, Zhang Guoxiong won the first prize of mosaic project, and Hu Yuechang won the first prize of art bricklaying project.
The day's event also released the "Jiangmen City Art Bricklaying Vocational Skills Training Course Standard". Kaiping City will use standardized training to realize talents to help rural revitalization and create more rural classics. On the basis of preserving the cultural accumulation of overseas Chinese, Village craftsmen as the main body create more characteristic residence villages integrating watchtower sightseeing, pastoral experience, and leisure and entertainment.

Liang Qiaoyun, Director of the Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security of Kaiping City: The artistic bricklaying included in today's competition is the first batch of rural craftsman courses that we researched and developed.Today, we are also setting up a competition stage to promote training through competitions to allow rural craftsmen to show their style. In the next step, we will continue to develop the curriculum standards for rural craftsmen and further cultivate more rural craftsmen to support and devote themselves to rural revitalization. .