Xuzhou City hosted the first Jiangsu Province Technical College Carnival as well as the World Youth Skills Day event on July 15.

In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day, to address the importance of equipping young people with skills and entrepreneurship.

The event in Xuzhou attracted teachers and students from 86 technical and vocational schools. It also included representatives from human resource service agencies and enterprises.

Participants showed their incredible skills by operating huge machines and sophisticated tools. For example, Wang Peng, a maintenance specialist from the excavator business unit of XCMG, operated a 60-ton excavator, with a blade attached to the bucket, to cut a cucumber into slices without breaking the balloon underneath.

(Photo/Zhang Qi)

Ge Ziliang, a student majoring in crafts at Suzhou Technician Institute of Electronics and Information, carved a work featuring the Red Boat on Nanhu Lake, an icon in the history of the Communist Party of China, and Tiananmen on a nut of less than 2cm in diameter.

Ge said he has been passionate about nut carving and feels happy to turn the fruit-stone into something beautiful.