Taiwan to host 2025 WorldSkills Asia competition

Taiwan has been selected to host the 2025 WorldSkills Asia competition, an international tournament promoting vocational skills education.

Lin San-quei (???), a WorldSkills Asia board member, told CNA on Wednesday that he received notification a day earlier that a majority of the group’s members had approved Taiwan’s application to host the event.

The organization will soon make an official statement announcing the decision, while the competition has been tentatively scheduled for November 2025, said Lin, who previously served as Taiwan’s vice minister of labor.

WorldSkills Asia, a branch of WorldSkills International, held its first competition in Abu Dhabi in 2018. Over the past three years, it has held exhibition events online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The second in-person competition is scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2023, while the one in Taiwan would be the third.

WorldSkills skills competitions cover a wide range of categories, including plastering and drywall, electrical installation, graphic design, car painting, welding, and robotics.

According to Lin, WorldSkills International recently canceled its 2022 competition in Shanghai due to the COVID situation there, and plans to announce alternative arrangements for competitors by the end of June.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel