{"id":13514,"date":"2024-05-29T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/?p=13514"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:20:01","slug":"focus-national-vocational-skills-competition-for-tea-tasters-baristas-and-beverage-mixologists-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/2024\/05\/29\/focus-national-vocational-skills-competition-for-tea-tasters-baristas-and-beverage-mixologists-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"[Focus] National Vocational Skills Competition for Tea Tasters, Baristas, and Beverage Mixologists Kicks Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finals of the first National Tea Taster Vocational Skills Competition in 2019.<br \/>An all-media reporter from China Co-op Times \u00b7 Tea Weekly has learned that, in order to give full play to the positive role of vocational skills competitions in building a talent training system and innovating talent selection mechanisms \u2014 and to select and reserve outstanding skilled talent for the industry\u2019s high-quality development \u2014 the Vocational Skills Appraisal and Guidance Center of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives and the China Employment Training Technical Instruction Center have jointly launched the 2022 National Industry Vocational Skills Competition \u2014 the National Supply and Marketing Cooperative System Industry Vocational Skills Competition \u2014 in accordance with the relevant requirements of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security for organizing the 2022 national industry vocational skills competitions. The competition occupations for this event are tea taster, barista, and beverage mixologist.<br \/>According to an official from the Vocational Skills Appraisal and Guidance Center of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, the competition is mainly open to personnel engaged in the production, processing, circulation, teaching, and research of tea, coffee, and freshly made beverages. Personnel who have already been awarded the titles of \u201cChina Skills Grand Prize\u201d or \u201cNational Technical Expert,\u201d as well as those who have already obtained eligibility to be nominated for \u201cNational Technical Expert,\u201d may not participate as contestants. The competition is based on the knowledge and skill requirements of Level 3\/Advanced Worker or above in the national vocational skill standards for each occupation, incorporating relevant new knowledge, new technologies, and new skills. The competition combines theoretical knowledge with practical skills. It is divided into two stages \u2014 preliminary rounds and finals. At present, provincial preliminary rounds have already begun, with relevant departments of provincial people\u2019s governments, provincial supply and marketing cooperatives, provincial industry associations, or other institutions capable of organizing competitions selecting contestants for each event to advance to the finals, which will be held in November.<br \/>It is reported that contestants who place in the top three of each occupation\u2019s finals and hold employee status will be awarded the title of \u201cNational Technical Expert,\u201d upon approval by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.<br \/>Produced by: China Co-op Times \u00b7 Tea Weekly All-Media<br \/>Related recommended reading<br \/>The most authoritative forum before tea artists exit the occupational catalog \u2014 everything you care about is here<br \/>The first \u201ctea art\u201d themed summit is here: Contemporary Tea Art Development Seminar and Tea Artist Career Planning Forum<br \/>Ten questions you must know after tea tasters and tea artists exit the occupational catalog<br \/>The tea artist and tea taster finals of the 16th Yunnan Provincial Employee Vocational Skills Competition for the tea industry were held in Pu\u2019er<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Author: Lam Sam (LamSam), the Old Tea Head<br \/>ZENTEA MANOR<br \/>Alliance Supply Chain Services Limited<br \/>Unit 902-3, 9\/F, Mini Cube, 10 Sam Chuk Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong<br \/>www.zentea-shop.com    Email:info@zentea-shop.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finals of the first National Tea Taster Vocational Skills Competition in 2019.An all-media reporter from China Co-op Times \u00b7 Tea Weekly has learned that, in order to give full play to the positive role of vocational skills competitions in building a talent training system and innovating talent selection mechanisms \u2014 and to select and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yun-tea-mountains-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13516,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions\/13516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}