The 48th WorldSkills Competition (WSC2026) will be held in Shanghai, China from September 22nd to 27th, 2026. The World Skills Competition is one of the largest and most influential skills competitions in the world. It has been held since 1950 and leads the direction and trend of vocational skills development. It plays an important role in promoting economic development, technological progress, and talent cultivation.
Recently, Shanghai Fanuc signed a contract with the Shanghai WorldSkills Executive Bureau, officially becoming the gold sponsor of the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai in 2026. Shanghai Fanuc will fully assist in the smooth holding of this World Championship, providing a professional competition platform, technical support, and supporting services for the robot system integration event, deeply participating in the global vocational skills exchange and construction, and leading the upgrading of Chinese industry skills with top-notch events.
Image: Joint logo of gold sponsor
As early as 2018, FANUC became a global industry partner of the World Skills Organization (WSI) and continues to provide professional technical support for robot system integration competitions. In China, Shanghai Fanuc relies on the WorldSkills platform to focus on talent cultivation, industrial development, and technological innovation. It explores new paths for WorldSkills standards and achievement transformation, actively promotes and implements them to major universities, and helps upgrade the standardization of vocational education.
Regarding the overall deployment of the 2026 Shanghai World Cup, Shanghai Fanuc has fully launched the full cycle preparation work, and orderly promoted the layered and phased skill selection and training work. In April of this year, the centralized assessment and testing competition of the World Cup China training team was successfully held in Shanghai. Shanghai Fanuc undertook the equipment matching and technical support tasks for the robot system integration competition, laying a solid foundation for the smooth landing of the competition.
Image: Shanghai Fanuc provides equipment and technical support for the centralized assessment and testing of the World Cup China training team
At present, the preparation work for various competitions is steadily advancing, and Shanghai Fanuc is fully preparing for the 2026 Shanghai World Championship. With a professional competition platform, mature technical capabilities, and rich experience in event services, we will fully guarantee fair, professional, and efficient competition, and fully demonstrate the top skill level in the field of intelligent manufacturing in China.
For a long time, Shanghai Fanuc has actively fulfilled its social responsibility, while empowering industrial development, deeply cultivating talent standards and high skilled talent cultivation in the field of intelligent manufacturing. Relying on the top skill standards of the World Skills Competition and the actual needs of the industry, actively participating in the construction of industry talent standards and cultivation systems, and continuously consolidating the foundation of industry standardization and standardized development.
With the help of a comprehensive training system and practical experience, Shanghai Fanuc vigorously promotes school enterprise cooperation, opens up channels for the integration of industry and education, and builds a complete ecosystem that integrates technical standard output and talent reserve. At the same time, fully leveraging technological advantages to help improve the quality and upgrade of vocational education, laying a solid talent foundation for the long-term development of the manufacturing industry, and promoting the sustainable development of the industry.
Image: Shanghai Fanuc supports school enterprise cooperation,
Promote the quality and upgrading of vocational education
Skills change the world and illuminate the future. Shanghai Fanuc will fully support the 2026 Shanghai World Championship and various competitions and exchange activities organized by the World Skills Organization in China. With leading automation, digitization, intelligence core technologies and systematic talent training systems, we will deeply empower the manufacturing industry to transform and upgrade in all aspects. In the future, Shanghai Fanuc will continue to fulfill its social responsibility, deeply cultivate high skilled talents in China's intelligent manufacturing industry, continuously rely on the authoritative standards of the World Expo to improve the talent development ecology, continuously supply high-quality professional talents to the intelligent manufacturing industry, help the manufacturing industry iterate and upgrade, improve quality and efficiency, empower Chinese manufacturing to solidify its core competitiveness, and lead the industry in the future.
