At noon on October 19, the Chinese delegation participating in the World Skills Competition South Korea Division Competition landed on Wuhan Tianhe International Airport and returned with honor.
Two days ago, news came from the Korean area of the 2022 World Skills Competition Special Championship that 6 Chinese players won 3 gold medals, 1 bronze medal and 2 winning awards . Among them, it is particularly worth mentioning that the cloud computing project assisted by Chengdu teacher Qu Dandan has achieved a breakthrough in my country's gold medals in this project. Qu Dandan is also the only member from Sichuan in the Chinese delegation of this World Skills Competition.
Compared with the Olympics, World Championships and other events, many people may not know much about the World Skills Competition - this competition is currently the highest level of the world professional skills competition, held by World Skills Organization , and held every two years. Its competitive level represents the world's advanced level of professional skills development in various fields, so it is also known as the "World Skills Olympics".
Qu Dandan, a teacher at Chengdu Mechanical Senior Technical School,
, Chengdu female teacher serves as the translation
, helps Chinese contestants to win gold
Qu Dandan comes from Chengdu Mechanical Senior Technical School. This time, Teacher Qu's identity is not a contestant, but a translator. Why do contestants need teachers to be interpreters when participating in the competition?
Qu Dandan explained that taking this year's competition as an example, the official competition time of the cloud computing project is 4 days, and there are dozens of pages of English questions in total. Translation has become a very important link in how to let the contestants accurately understand the question and answer requirements.
is not only a large amount, but this type of skill competition also involves a large number of professional terms. If there is a deviation in the translation, the contestant's answer may be deviated from the question. Qu Dandan gave an example. Everyone is familiar with the meaning of "traffic" as transportation, but in cloud computing projects, it must be translated into "traffic". "token" no longer means "gift voucher", but should be translated into "token".
In order to ensure sufficient time to translate accurately, during the Korean competition, Qu Dandan and other members in charge of translation arrived at the arena in advance every day to prepare, translated more than ten pages of the test questions and handed over to the contestants for answering.
2022 World Skills Competition Special Competition
In this competition, the Chinese delegation had a total of 34 translation members. Each person was responsible for translating which competition event was decided by the lottery draw 3 months ago. "This randomness is also to ensure fairness of the competition." After the lottery was completed, 34 translators formed 34 event participation groups together with experts and contestants.
Qu Dandan won the cloud computing project, which was held in South Korea from October 13 to October 16, 2022. The project has a total of 14 contestants from 14 countries and regions competing. At the same time, there are 7 projects including mobile application development, business software solutions, 3D digital game art, etc.
Although he has nearly 9 years of teaching experience and has reached the level of eight in English, Qu Dandan was under great pressure at that time. With only more than two months of preparation, she not only needs to be familiar with the new rules of the event, professional terms, and game equipment instructions, but also needs to do a good job in expert meeting translation. A small translation mistake may affect the performance of the competition and even affect the progress of the competition.
breaks the record
locks the gold medal in advance with the advantage of close to full score
On the afternoon of October 9, members of the Chinese delegation including Qu Dandan arrived at Incheon International Airport, South Korea.
The cloud computing project they competed for this time is one of the newly established projects of in the 45th World Skills Competition of . It focuses on examining the players deploying cloud resources on the public cloud platform according to the designed architecture, completing infrastructure construction, management, operation and maintenance, and maintaining the security of public cloud facilities.
This is also the only event in all World Championships that requires online competition. The competition scores will jump in real time with the players' operations, and the process is extremely "thrilling".
has a background that in the last competition of this event, the Chinese team did not get a ranking and unfortunately lost. Therefore, when participating in the competition again, each team member was full of energy.
doesn't leave much time for them to be familiar with the venue and the rules.Qu Dandan recalled that three days before the official competition, she mainly accompanied cloud computing project experts to attend the meeting, accompanied the contestants to get familiar with the equipment, etc.
cloud computing project real-time points ranking list
On October 13, the competition officially began. During this period, in addition to being a good assistant to experts, friends of players and a bridge of language, Qu Dandan also needs to be very familiar with the rules of the competition and deal with various emergencies that may occur in the competition.
For the next four days, Qu Dandan, as a translator, got up at 5 o'clock every morning (the whole time mentioned is Korean local time), arrived at the stadium at 7 o'clock, and translated the questions first from 7:30 to 9:00 am; from 9:00 am to 9:00 am, the precautions for the players' oral translation competition; from 9:25 to 9:30 am, answer the unclear problems encountered by the players in the exam questions, and accompany the experts to participate in the meeting in the rest of the time; after the competition ends at 4:30 pm, Qu Dandan will continue to serve as the translator for the expert's scoring until the score is over, sign and confirm the results, and sometimes even have to be busy until one or two o'clock in the morning.
During the competition, Qu Dandan will also encounter a sharp increase in the number of questions. For example, the questions translated on October 13 were nearly 20 pages, "The number of test questions was relatively large, and the pressure was not small at that time. Fortunately, I had solid skills and sufficient preparations, and I completed the translation and provided the players with accurate test questions."
After four days of competition, on October 16, Chen Xinyuan, a Chinese player in the cloud computing project - Shenzhen Technician College teacher, locked the gold medal in the cloud computing project in advance with an overwhelming advantage of nearly full marks every day. This is also the first time that the Chinese delegation has won the gold medal in this project since participating in the World Skills Competition.
Cloud computing project champion Chen Xinyuan stepped on the podium
Witness Vocational Education people stood on the world podium
She said that she saw the bright prospects of Vocational Education
17 On October 17, when she saw Vocational Education people stood on the world podium, Qu Dandan was very excited. "As a vocational education teacher, I feel very proud. Naughty and poor students should not be the tags for vocational education students."
Qu Dandan signed up for the translation work of the competition, which happened two years ago.
In the first half of 2020, the registration for the 46th World Skills Competition translation selection was initiated nationwide. With the support of the leaders of Chengdu Mechanical Senior Technical School, Qu Dandan filled out the registration form. At that time, there were a total of 682 applicants recommended by various local and relevant industry departments.
After preliminary screening, in September 2020, Qu Dandan and another 95 candidates entered the next round of training. The
training lasted for 3 days, mainly training cross-cultural communication skills and English professional skills, as well as introducing content such as the World Skills Competition. Then another round of interviews was conducted, and 34 people were left behind. Qu Dandan is still impressed by this interview. During the interview, there were about 10 interviewers and 1 interviewer in a room, and exchanged questions in English, such as "Why do you need to sign up for translation" and "How to serve the XX project (World Skills Competition)" in one room. More than two months after the interview, Qu Dandan received a notice that he was selected.
On September 27, 2022, the Chinese delegation was established in the 2022 World Skills Competition Special Competition. China participated in 34 projects this time, with a total of 146 people including pre-season contestants, experts and translators, among which only Qu Dandan was selected in Sichuan.
Reviewing the entire preparation and competition process, Qu Dandan feels that this trip has gained a lot. "Although the process was very hard before, I think about it now that the choice was right and vocational education also had bright prospects."
team took a photo (the left is Professor Liu Xiang of Shanghai Engineering Vocational University, the middle is champion Chen Xinyuan, and the right is Qu Dandan)
Returning from Korea
She wants to tell two stories to vocational education students
6 years after graduating from undergraduate studies, in 2019, Qu Dandan became an English teacher at Chengdu Mechanical Advanced Technical School.
After contacting
for a period of time, Qu Dandan gained a deeper understanding of vocational school students. "To be honest, for a long time, because of some cognitive inertia, from parents to society, everyone has paid more attention to general high school students, so the light of general high school students is also more likely to be seen."
Champions Chen Xinyuan and Qu Dandan
However, after working in a vocational school for more than three years, Qu Dandan said that she has also seen a lot of shining points in vocational school students, and these shining points also need to be seen by society.
Originally, in September this year, Qu Dandan should have met with her new high school children, but due to online teaching, competition and other reasons, she has not officially met with the students offline until now.
ends her trip to Korea and she will return to class. She also prepared the "meeting gift" for the children, and there are two stories:
A story is that three years ago, in Russia, the Chinese team participated in the cloud computing project competition for the World Skills Competition for the first time, and did not even win the award. But three years later, the Chinese team won the gold medal with a score of nearly full marks, refreshing the world's understanding of China's skill level in this field.
Another story, the protagonist is the contestants who participated in the World Skills Competition this time. "Some of them, when the junior high school entrance examination was not ideal, became vocational education students, but after years of hard work, they stood at the top of the world with their strength."
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