In the training room, Han Jiong, a freshman at Shenzhen Polytechnic University, is intently debugging an intelligent device. His fingers nimbly move between circuit boards, like a skilled craftsman carving a masterpiece. Just a few months ago, he won the first place and gold medal in the final of the 2025 World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition. Now pursuing further studies at Shenzhen Polytechnic University, he is particularly grateful to his alma mater, Shenzhen No.1 Vocational and Technical School, and the “magic city” of Shenzhen: “Here, we vocational school students also have an extremely broad stage.” Han Jiong’s growth path is a vivid microcosm of Shenzhen’s vocational education.
Skilled talents are the engine that underpins industrial upgrading and drives urban innovation. In recent years, Shenzhen’s vocational education system has undergone systematic restructuring with a high degree of strategic awareness. By building a diversified and collaborative education ecosystem and establishing integrated talent development paths, it has provided solid talent support for high-quality economic development and formed the distinctive “Shenzhen Model”. Shenzhen’s vocational education is empowering students to achieve diversified career success and move towards a broader future.
As one of the first national pilot cities for industry-education integration, Shenzhen has taken the lead in exploring and forming the exemplary “Shenzhen Model” nationwide. The municipal Party committee and government issued the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Modern Vocational Education, making systematic arrangements for deep industry-education integration. Colleges and universities in the city have jointly built 47 characteristic industrial colleges with leading enterprises, and identified 102 industry-education integration enterprises, forming a genetic-level integration of modern vocational education industry-education integration featuring “government-enterprise-school-research collaboration” and “professional chain docking with industrial chain”.
In recent years, Shenzhen has innovatively promoted the development of vocational education. Through approaches such as the integrated long-term talent training by secondary vocational schools, higher vocational colleges and enterprises, and the “3+4 secondary to undergraduate integrated classes”, it has opened up diversified growth channels for vocational school students from academic upgrading to skill advancement. Taking the integrated long-term training by secondary vocational schools, higher vocational colleges and enterprises as an example, students are managed by secondary vocational schools for the first 3 years, and transferred to corresponding higher vocational colleges after passing the assessment, and then managed by higher vocational colleges for the next 2 years. In Shenzhen, secondary vocational school students can even directly enter undergraduate universities! This year, the first batch of “3+4” secondary to undergraduate integrated classes launched by Shenzhen No.1 Vocational and Technical School and Shenzhen No.2 Vocational and Technical School have performed brilliantly. Among them, the admission score line of the secondary to undergraduate integrated class of Shenzhen No.1 Vocational and Technical School is 512 points, exceeding the admission score lines of more than 30 public general high schools (AC category).
Shenzhen has also continued to make efforts in the infrastructure construction of vocational education. To build a demonstration vocational education campus facing the times, industry and future, Shenzhen has relocated some existing secondary vocational schools to Pingdi Street, Longgang District, forming an agglomeration effect with the International Low-Carbon City, and promoting the construction of an international vocational education city that cultivates high-skilled talents for Shenzhen and has a demonstration effect. The Shenzhen No.1 Vocational Education Park has been approved: the first batch of schools to settle in Phase I include the Vocational Education Park Campus (Phase I) of Pengcheng Technician College, Shenzhen Sports School (relocated and newly built), and the Vocational Education Park Campus (Phase I) of Shenzhen No.1 Vocational and Technical School. It is planned to cover an area of about 132 hectares with a total construction area of about 1.5 million square meters, and can accommodate 40,000 students upon completion.
For vocational school students, skills competitions are a brilliant stage to show themselves, improve skills and realize dreams. It is reported that Shenzhen has shined in the 2025 World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition, winning a total of 13 gold medals, 13 silver medals and 11 bronze medals, with a total of 37 medals. All schools have built a four-level competition system of “school competition – municipal competition – provincial competition – national competition” to comprehensively improve students’ skill level and professional literacy. Many vocational school students have achieved a gorgeous transformation from “ordinary students” to “skilled craftsmen” through the tempering of competitions.
Han Jiong from Shenzhen Polytechnic University:
Homemade Power Bank for 50 Yuan Wins Skills Competition Gold Medal
From exploring in front of circuit boards to the podium of the 2025 World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition, Han Jiong, a graduate of Shenzhen No.1 Vocational and Technical School, completed a gorgeous transformation based on practice and relying on skills in three years. After tempering in multiple tracks such as communication systems and power systems, he won the gold medal in the “Electronic, Electrical and Integrated Circuit” project of the 2025 World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition, demonstrating the solid practical ability and sustainable development comprehensive literacy of Shenzhen students.
During his studies, a common core chip of power banks sparked Han Jiong’s desire to explore. Since products on the market did not meet his needs, he had the idea to independently design a brand-new power bank based on this chip.
“The power bank is the most successful product I have made and the one I have used for the longest time.” Han Jiong independently purchased components at a cost of less than 50 yuan and personally completed the entire process from circuit design, welding and assembly to charge-discharge testing. He innovatively adopted the same type of battery as new energy vehicles to solve the problems of short service life and easy bulging of ordinary products. This power bank, only the size of a tissue box, has been used stably for more than two years. During this period, he also made and gave it to others many times, which has become a vivid testimony of his practice of the concept of “applying what he has learned”.
Although the power bank is small, it is the starting point of his skill journey. Han Jiong believes that in vocational schools, the core of learning is not to understand a certain fixed knowledge point, but the ability of independent learning and problem-solving. With his love and persistence, independently developing electronic products is no longer an unattainable complex project, but a tangible exploration process. With excellent skill level and comprehensive quality, Han Jiong was admitted to Shenzhen Polytechnic University for further studies without examination after graduation, and continues to sprint towards the stage of the World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition.
From independently making a power bank to standing on the top of the world competition stage, from Shenzhen No.1 Vocational and Technical School to Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Han Jiong’s experience vividly interprets that in Shenzhen, every student with a skill dream can find their own stage and move forward steadily on the road of serving the country with skills.
Weng Jiajia from Shenzhen No.3 Vocational and Technical School:
The First in the School! Winning Two Gold Medals in World-Class Competitions
In the wave of high-quality development of Shenzhen’s vocational education, skills competitions have become an important platform for cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents. Weng Jiajia from Class 23 Robotics 1 of Shenzhen No.3 Vocational and Technical School is an outstanding representative of this education model. Weng Jiajia has a strong interest in skills competitions and has represented Shenzhen in the final of the World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition for two consecutive years. She has always believed that “the competition field is the fastest place to improve skills”.
Since joining the school’s training team for the “Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Technology Application” competition in December 2023, she has started a high-intensity training career. Every early morning, when other students are still asleep, Weng Jiajia has already come to the laboratory to start training; at night, the lights of the laboratory are often on for her until late at night. This competition involves multiple links such as mechanical assembly, electrical wiring and program writing. To improve the accuracy of mechanical assembly, she repeatedly practiced the installation and disassembly of components, and thick calluses formed on her hands; to improve the efficiency of program writing, she memorized various programming instructions and continuously optimized her programming ideas; to deal with possible emergencies in the competition, she simulated various complex scenarios with her teammates and repeatedly practiced solutions.
Hard work pays off. In October 2024, Weng Jiajia and her teammates represented Shenzhen in the “Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Technology Application” project of the 2024 World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition Finals. At the competition site, Weng Jiajia was calm and methodical, and finally won the gold medal in this project with an outstanding performance.
In July 2025, she joined the school’s training team for the “New Power Operation and Maintenance” competition, starting a new round of challenges, and represented Shenzhen again in the 2025 World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition Finals in August. In the “Energy and Power” project, she skillfully applied the programming logic and competition experience accumulated in the intelligent manufacturing project, gave full play to her professional advantages, and won the gold medal again, becoming the first student in the school to win two gold medals in different tracks of the World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition, showing the exquisite professional skills and comprehensive quality of Shenzhen students.
Wu Xinhan from Shenzhen Longgang No.2 Vocational and Technical School:
Providing Optometry and Glasses Repair Services for Teachers, Students and Residents
On the campus of Shenzhen Longgang No.2 Vocational and Technical School, people can often see the focused figure of Wu Xinhan, a student of the 2023 Optometry and Glasses Fitting major. This girl who won the silver medal in the “Medical Technology” track of the 2025 World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition has always firmly believed in and practiced a simple philosophy: “It is a great happiness to bring convenience and help to others with professional skills.”
As an optometry student, Wu Xinhan takes serving others as the foothold of skill learning. She actively uses her spare time to provide professional optometry and glasses repair services for teachers, students and residents in surrounding communities on campus. Whether it is adjusting frames, replacing nose pads, or precise optometry and cleaning maintenance, she has effectively helped everyone solve vision problems and glasses use problems with skilled technology and patient attitude. These seemingly trivial services not only save teachers and students the time and cost of going out for repairs, but also make her a professional and warm presence on campus.
In addition to daily services, she also regularly holds multiple public welfare publicity activities on “glasses maintenance and correct use”, popularizing scientific eye care knowledge to teachers and students through on-site demonstrations and interactive explanations, and improving everyone’s awareness of visual health. In her opinion, every adjustment and every explanation is not only the practice of skills, but also the transmission of love.
Wu Xinhan not only engages in volunteer services herself, but also passes on this enthusiasm to her juniors, driving more willing students to join the ranks of public welfare services. She hopes that through her efforts, more people will pay attention to public welfare and pass on positive energy. From training classes to volunteer services, from skills competition fields to community frontlines, Wu Xinhan takes professionalism as the medium and love as the bridge, growing in service and shining in dedication.
