Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong met Simon Bartley, president of the Worldskills International, and David Hoey, chief executive officer of Worldskills, on Tuesday.

During the meeting, Tang Tao, vice minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China, and Peng Chenlei, vice mayor of Shanghai, signed a memorandum of understanding with Bartley and Hoey on the 46th Worldskills Competition, and a letter of intent for cooperation on the construction of Worldskills Museum.

The memorandum of understanding specifies that the human resources ministry and Shanghai will form a competition committee; and the letter of intent for cooperation specifies a tripartite partnership among Worldskills, China’s Human Resources Ministry, and Shanghai to finish the construction of Worldskills Museum in 2021.