The first national nutrition catering competition has come to an end, and the top three will win the title of "National Technical Expert"

From December 17 to 18, the 2022 National Industry Vocational Skills Competition - National Business Service Skills Competition "Nutrition Catering Staff" Finals was held in Fujian Xiamen Industry and Tourism School, and the competition was a complete success
.

"Nutrition Dieter" has been included in the National Occupational Classification since 2002, aiming to provide nutritional needs investigation and analysis, balanced meal recipe design, nutritious meal preparation and nutrition guidance
for different dining objects.
With the increasing improvement of people's living standards and the increasing demand for health services, scientifically guiding people to adjust their dietary structure and make them delicious and nutritious is an inevitable trend
in the development of healthy Chinese catering.
According to relevant statistics, the number of Chinese chefs has reached 12 million, but there are very few
talents who know cooking skills and nutritional knowledge.
According to the average of 30 chefs in each operation, it is estimated that there are up to 400,000
professional nutrition catering staff.

Associate Professor Wang Yubao, Deputy Dean of the School of Culinary Arts of Zhejiang Tourism Vocational College, pointed out that chefs have always made dishes with taste as the soul, and their nutritional knowledge is weak; Nutritionists, on the other hand, are mostly not good at cooking, and the dilemma has existed
for many years.
Not long ago, the 2022 edition of the National Occupational Standards for Nutritional Catering Workers revised and formulated by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security effectively integrates recipe design and dish production, and requires nutrition catering staff to master certain nutrition education knowledge, so as to ultimately achieve the purpose of improving the health quality of the whole people, reducing malnutrition diseases, and contributing
to popularizing health knowledge and promoting the "Healthy China Action".

China is a world culinary power, but the application of nutrition in catering is still in its infancy
.
The sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic has changed the daily life of the public, and also increased the public's attention to nutrition and health, and eating healthy has gradually become the focus
of public attention.

2022 National Industry Vocational Skills Competition - The National Business Service Skills Competition is jointly sponsored
by the China Business Technicians Association, the China Employment Training Technical Guidance Center, and the National Committee of the China Finance and Trade Light Textile and Tobacco Trade Union.
Among them, the "Nutrition Catering Staff" competition is the first national vocational skills competition held in the 20 years since the state released the profession, and it is also the only national second-class competition
approved in the national catering industry this year.
With the theme of "New Era, New Skills, New Dreams", this competition promotes learning, training, evaluation and construction through competition, fully demonstrating the professional skill level and spiritual outlook of talents with nutritional catering skills, combining local dietary characteristics with nutritional balance, popularizing nutritional diet knowledge, and spreading the concept of
healthy diet.

From September to November 2022, the organizing committee of the competition successfully held trials in seven provinces and cities: Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Fujian
.
In accordance with the requirements of the competition regulations, the executive committees of each competition area carefully organized and strictly checked, and nearly 1,000 contestants were selected and fiercely competed to produce 33 contestants to advance to the finals
.
On the 16th, 31 outstanding contestants came to the registration site
of the finals.
In the end, 29 people completed the entire fixture
.

Online theory exams, on-site selection of exam questions, design of recipes with the help of "Nutrition Pairing Companion" software, limited purchase of ingredients, on-site cooking production, and report defense are the biggest highlights
of the competition 。 According to the specific dining object of "60-year-old middle-aged women", this competition comprehensively uses nutrition, cooking, food raw materials, food safety and other knowledge, through scientific and reasonable nutrition calculation, recipe design, selection and matching of cooking raw materials and improvement of cooking methods, in the specified 90 minutes time and not more than 50 yuan per person cost budget, to prepare a delicious and nutritionally balanced meal
.

The finalists made great moves, and the contestants appeared in their unique skills, including traditional Chinese cuisine and a combination of Chinese and Western food; The choice of ingredients is rich and varied, the color combination is pleasing to the eye, the shape design is novel and unique, and the exquisite dishes are matched with exquisite tableware
.
The competition works show a high level
in many aspects such as nutrition matching, cooking skills, display, and innovation.

Professor Meng Xiangren, the chief judge of the finals, senior evaluator of the National Vocational Skills Appraisal and deputy dean of the School of Tourism and Cuisine of Yangzhou University, said that this year's competition adheres to the concept of scientific, standardized, professional, thrifty and fair, and the participants have solid professional theory and skillful practical skills; The review team is serious and highly responsible
.
The competition fully demonstrated the strength and level
of the players.
The competition has made bold innovations in the form of examinations and assessments, and realized the intelligent process
of mini programs for the first time.
The use of data informatization has also greatly improved the fairness, efficiency and accuracy
of this competition's examination.

After comprehensive scoring and evaluation, Shao Zedong of Zhejiang Province, Zhou Jianqin of Yunnan Province, and Yu Jinfu of Fujian Province won the top
three.
After passing the review and approval of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, they will be awarded the title of "National Technical Expert
".
At the same time, the top 15 finalists will be promoted to the professional skill level
in accordance with relevant regulations.

After the competition, Shao Zedong, a player from Zhejiang who won the first place, said that as an expert of the WorldSkills Competition, the students he led have won numerous awards at home and abroad, and he has set off
again with a "zero" mentality for this competition.
Yu Jinfu, a Fujian player who won the third place, whose profession is a nutritionist and has excellent cooking skills, ran to the back kitchen of the hotel to practice hard for more than a month
in order to make up for his shortcomings in using professional cooking utensils.
In interviews, Shanghai team members repeatedly stressed that although the results of the competition are important, what is more valuable is to know their own strengths and weaknesses, find out the gaps, and find the direction
of future progress and efforts through the competition.
Two contestants from Guangdong sighed heartily when resuming the game after the competition: I used to think that student players might have more advantages in theoretical exams, but I didn't expect that the dishes were also quite exciting
.
Yunnan team leader, President Qiu Jun of Yunnan Dietitians Association, and Dr.
Hu Xiaoliang, a teacher from Shanghai Tourism College, all said that they had gained a lot in this competition, and hoped to continue to work hard and keep improving, and looked forward to meeting challenges and achieving breakthroughs
in the next competition.

The first "Nutritional Catering Staff" National Vocational Skills Competition is of great significance
for promoting the profession of "Nutritional Catering Staff" and spreading the concept of eating health.
It not only builds a platform for practitioners to show, provides learning opportunities, and opens up career prospects, but also increases the promotion of the concept of health and nutrition, guides the public to establish scientific eating habits, and embraces health
while enjoying deliciousness.

According to the person in charge of the China Commercial Technicians Association, the organizer of the competition, the expert group summarized the competition as soon as the first "Nutritional Caterer" competition ended, saying that it would promote the progress
of nutritional catering based on the competition activities.
First, the competition process continues to be optimized
.
For example, the report defense session ensures that the contestants can get straight to the point and test the nutritional knowledge literacy in the shortest time
.
Second, the judging method is more scientific and standardized, and further use of information technology and digital evaluation methods to reduce subjective judgment and quantify the true level of
players with objective data.
The third is to accelerate the integration
of chefs and nutritionists.
The competition needs to further stimulate and enhance the enthusiasm of chefs to learn nutrition knowledge and nutritionists' willingness to improve their cooking skills, so as to integrate the professional expertise of chefs and nutritionists to learn from each other's strengths
.
Fourth, the development needs of
the service industry.
In the post-epidemic era, the public is more concerned about health, and the work of nutritional catering staff needs to be more grounded, avoid "delicious but not nutritious, nutritious and not delicious", expand nutritional catering from niche needs to general social needs, continue to improve the health and well-being of the general public, and lead and promote the benign development
of the nutritional catering industry.

(Wang Yiwen)

Preliminary review: Li Song Responsible editor: Ouyang Meihua Review: Peng Zonglu