Known as the Olympic Games of international professional skills and held every two years, the WorldSkills Competition is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. The competition enables experts to transfer international standards and technology to Macao, whereby optimising the training and education of the fashion and creative industry in Macao and cultivating professionals. Meanwhile, it improves the quality of the fashion and creative industry, forcing the Macao fashion and creative industry to shift from its focus on factory orders and mass production to diversified creative fashion designs, focusing on creating high quality and high-end products, as well as promoting created-in-Macao fashion labels; therefore it makes the entire fashion and creative industry in line with international practice.

After the competition, majority of the local young competitors continue to work and develop in the fashion and creative industry, disseminating the international standards and technologies they have learned to the Macao fashion and creative industry, thus contributing to the upgrading of technologies and skills of the industry. The 45th WorldSkills Competition will be held in Kazan, Russia in August this year.