The Second Vocational Skills of Baby Care Regional Selection Competition (Sixth Session), part of the 2024 Belt & Road and BRICS Competition of Skills Development and Technology Innovation, was held at Inner Mongolia Preschool Education College for Nationalities from Nov 9 to 10.

Opening ceremony of the competition. [Photo/WeChat account of Nuan news]

This large-scale vocational skills competition involved 25 teams from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. The competition focused on caring for infants under 3 years old, which is in tune with the efforts of BRICS and countries involved in the Belt and Road to build high-quality partnerships and jointly shape a new era of global development.

The competition consisted of two parts: a theory test and a skill assessment, which examines the caregiver's basic knowledge and skills in keeping children safe, providing daily care, safeguarding health, and guiding early development.

The skill assessment.  [Photo/WeChat account of Nuan news]

Since 2017, the Belt & Road and BRICS Competition of Skills Development and Technology Innovation has held seven iterations. It is also a long-term collaboration mechanism to promote educational cooperation, skill development, joint cultivation of skilled talents, technological innovations, and exchanges among the BRICS and countries involved in the Belt and Road.

The event was co-hosted by the BRICS Business Council, the Belt & Road and BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development, and the Belt & Road and BRICS Skills Development and Technology Innovation Training Center of China Association for Science and Technology.