TWO Shenzheners have been awarded at a national commendation conference dedicated to outstanding skilled workers, which was held in Beijing recently, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.

The two awardees are Wang Jiantao and Xiao Qingxiong. Wang, a senior electrician with China Nuclear Power Operations Co. Ltd., won the China Skills Award. Xiao, a senior technician with Shenzhen Liande Automation Equipment Co. Ltd., was given the title of National Technical Expert.

A total of 30 people were selected winners of the China Skills Award and 293 people won the title of National Technical Expert. The two awards are China’s highest honor bestowed to outstanding skilled workers.

The China Skills Award aims at commending and rewarding excellent skilled workers who have made outstanding contributions to China’s high-quality economic development and the construction of a powerful manufacturing country.

Wang, 43, is the second outstanding skilled worker in Shenzhen to win the award. As a leader in the country’s nuclear turbine generator maintenance industry, Wang has been working in the field for 25 years.

In 1996 when Wang was 18, he came to Shenzhen with a technical secondary school diploma. His assiduity and perseverance helped break foreign monopoly on nuclear power generator maintenance, saving more than 40 million yuan (US$6.18 million) in the overhaul of nuclear power generators.

Wang has also contributed to 257 technical innovations and obtained 81 national patents that fill the void in the generator maintenance field at home and abroad.

Meanwhile, a master workshop led by Wang has become a hotspot for the cultivation of skilled workers. So far, the workshop has trained 56 skilled workers and 10 technical experts at the provincial and ministerial levels.

Xiao, 34, came to Shenzhen in 2017 after he graduated from a technical school. A hard-working and aspiring person, Xiao has presided over and completed 52 key projects in electrical automation control system design and PLC program development and technology research.

Xiao is also the leader of the city’s electrical control skills master workshop and has trained more than 30 automation technicians for enterprises.

(Zhang Yu)