In response to the strategy of making China strong through the manufacturing of “Made in China 2025”, the electromechanical, mold, numerical control, and other majors in the national vocational colleges proposed the demands for transformation and upgrading of high-end numerical control technologies. The competition item of digital design and manufacturing integrates digital design, processing, installation, debugging, programming, testing, data collection, comprehensive application, etc. It is a typical industrial and intelligent design and application technology system. The competition includes the parts of theoretical knowledge competition and practical operation competition. In the practical operation competition, two players work together to complete digital design and analysis by using CAD/CAM/CAE industrial software and operate numerical control machine tools, 3D printers, and other processing equipments to complete product design, manufacturing, assembly, and verification.

　　The National Intelligent Manufacturing Application Technology Skills Competition jointly held by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, All-China Federation of Trade Unions, and China Machinery Industry Federation is a state-level first-class competition. The competition is a concrete embodiment of the implementation of the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics of Xi Jinping in the new era, an effective measure to jointly promote the transformation and upgrading of the machinery industry, and a platform for technical and skilled talents to display their talents, exchange skills, communicate, and study.

　　The competition item of tool fitters (general basic technology of machinery manufacturing) in the 17th National Vocational Skills Competition of the Machinery Industry in the China Skills Competition in 2019 is a national second-class competition co-sponsored by China Machinery Industry Federation, China Employment Training Technology Guidance Center, and the National Committee of China Machinery, Metallurgy, and Building Materials Trade Union. The competition can promote the construction of the team of skilled talents in the machinery industry, enhance the accumulation of technical skills and their service ability and level in the strategy of making China strong through manufacturing, further promote the whole society, especially young people, to understand intelligent manufacturing, guide young people to study intelligent manufacturing technology and develop the concept of becoming useful people with skills, and create a good social atmosphere of learning skilled talents, respecting skilled talents, and striving to be skilled talents in the whole society.