A pair of black thick-framed glasses framed on the face of Ma Hongda . Five years of hard work finally made him stand on the highest podium of the special competition in World Skills Competition. On October 23, local time in France, Ma Hongda, a student from the 16th level building decoration technician class of Zhejiang Construction Technician College, won the "plastering and partition wall system project" competition in the 2022 World Skills Competition Special Competition, achieving a breakthrough in China's gold medal "zero" in this event. (November 1 "Beijing News")
This is a story about sinking into . "Thank you for a hard work for a long time, don't be lazy in time." A five-year sword took up nearly a quarter of Ma Hongda, a post-00s generation, in his past life. One quarter of this life is counted as 260.71 weeks, and Ma Hongda carefully planned each week according to the training cycle of preparing for the competition. From diving to leap, "skills are almost the Tao" requires a process of patience accumulation. From partition walls, plastering to sticking lines, from cement, gypsum board, bricks to ceramic tiles, Ma Hongda maintains the rhythm of clock-like precision operation day after day, neither fast nor slow, nor proud, and has achieved exquisite skills bit by bit.

This is a story about extreme . In the World Skills Competition, known as "HTM1 Olympic of World Skills", contestants from 14 countries and regions competed in the same field for the "plastering and partition system project". The competition contents of the five modules must be completed within four days, and the operational error of each link cannot exceed one millimeter. Only by being brave enough to pursue the ultimate and strive for excellence can one achieve a state of discomfort. It is precisely because he endured the boredom of repeated training on weekdays and persisted in "fighting against the nothingness before the dripping water wears through the stone" that Ma Hongda finally achieved success in his studies.
Ma Hongda's winning story successfully interprets the whole process of how a young man uses his youth to precipitate the spirit of craftsmanship . As Ma Hongda said, "All walks of life can shine and heat up. As long as you always hold a learning heart and do what you are doing seriously, you will definitely be recognized." Skilled talents, in Ma Hongda's worldview, are people who have persisted in the fields they have been deeply rooted in, have achieved something and are beneficial to society. As the saying goes, "If the heart is in one art, the art must be crafted; if the heart is in one position, the job must be performed." What skilled talents need most is to stick to the heart of as the years pass.
text/Guangzhou Daily Commentator Yang Bo
pictures/Guangzhou Daily·New Flower City reporter Yang Yaoye
Guangzhou Daily·New Flower City editor Zhang Dongmei
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