Qufu recently launched the Shandong Province Vocational Skills Competition, featuring the 2024 Shandong Cultural Heritage Vocational Skills Competition and the 2025 National Cultural Heritage Industry Vocational Skills Competition Shandong Selection.

The event shows the skills and craftsmanship involved in preserving and restoring cultural heritage. [Photo/Jining Evening News]

During the competition, craftsmen restore cultural relics, underscoring the value of traditional arts and crafts in contemporary society. [Photo/Jining Evening News]

Themed "preserving cultural heritage and promoting the spirit of craftsmanship" and "inheriting ingenuity of Qilu", the competition encompasses categories on the restoration of six mediums: wood, masonry, paintings, metallurgy, ceramics, and calligraphy, as well as a category for archaeological excavations.