Empowering industries with skills and driving development with talents. To further advance the "Skill Revitalization of Shandong" initiative, cultivate high-skilled talents for the digital economy, and boost the development of new quality productive forces, the AI event of the 2026 Jining "Skill Champion" Vocational Skills Competition and the 6th Jining Technician Education Group Federation Vocational Skills Competition was successfully held in China Coal Group on August 29.
Focusing on the emerging vocational track of artificial intelligence, this competition is a key digital event of Jining’s "Skill Champion" series of competitions, attracting more than 30 contestants from enterprises and technical colleges across the city to compete on the same stage. During the competition, all contestants performed calmly and operated rigorously, fully demonstrating the craftsmanship spirit of diligent learning, rigorous thinking and pursuit of excellence among digital skilled talents in Jining. The judging team strictly abided by the evaluation rules and standardized the judging process to ensure a fair and impartial competition.
As the organizer, China Coal Group adheres to the principle of promoting learning, training and innovation through competitions. It promotes the industrial empowerment value of "Artificial Intelligence +", extending AI application from enterprise production scenarios to competition venues, so as to cover broader industrial tracks and talent markets. By undertaking this municipal-level skills competition, the enterprise transforms industrial technical resources into talent cultivation resources and builds a high-quality platform for AI technical talents to exchange skills and demonstrate their capabilities.
The successful holding of this event has further built a platform for exchange and competition for AI skilled talents in Jining, and helped discover and cultivate a number of technical and skilled talents in the digital field. In the next step, China Coal Group will continue to deepen the integration of industry and education, give full play to its role as an innovation entity, rely on its independent R&D and practical experience of AI agents, and actively participate in the training of skilled talents, continuously contributing corporate strength to the high-quality development of Jining’s digital industry.
