中华人民共和国第一届职业技能大赛12月10日在广东省广州市开幕。中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平发来贺信，向大赛的举办表示热烈的祝贺，向参赛选手和广大技能人才致以诚挚的问候。习近平在贺信中指出，职业技能竞赛为广大技能人才提供了展示精湛技能、相互切磋技艺的平台，对壮大技术工人队伍、推动经济社会发展具有积极作用。

President Xi Jinping sent a letter of congratulations on Dec 10 to the country's first vocational skills competition in Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong province. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, extended sincere greetings to the contestants and all skilled workers in the letter. The vocational skills competition provides a platform for workers to display their skills and learn from each other, and plays a positive role in expanding the skilled workforce and promoting social and economic development, according to the letter.

大力弘扬劳模精神、劳动精神、工匠精神，激励更多劳动者特别是青年一代走技能成才、技能报国之路，培养更多高技能人才和大国工匠，为全面建设社会主义现代化国家提供有力人才保障。

We should make efforts to carry forward the spirit of model workers, labor and craftsmanship, stimulate more workers, especially the younger generation, to improve their skills, and foster more highly skilled workers and craftsmen in a bid to achieve the goal of fully building a modern socialist country.

——2020年12月10日，习近平致信祝贺首届全国职业技能大赛举办