On the morning of April 26, Chenzhou celebrated the International Labor Day and held the labor and skills completion promotion meeting of "workers celebrate the Nineteenth National Congress and labor creates a new Chenzhou". The first batch of 40 “Chenzhou craftsmen” was commended in the meeting.

The 40 "Chenzhou craftsmen" cover all the advanced workers from all walks of life in Chenzhou, including auto mechanics, tour guides, CNC lathes, masonry workers, steel workers, etc., They are worker representatives who have achieved excellent results in the competition of city level and above.

Among them, Fan Huabin from the No. 7451 factory of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), has won the first prize of Cold Sheet Metal Work in the national military and civilian integration skills completion; Lu Xinhua from Hunan Baoshan Nonferrous Metals Mining Co., Ltd., has won the first prize of maintenance electrician in the third session of Hunan Province workers professional skills contest; Zhou Canjun from Chenzhou Shenxiang Automobile Co., Ltd., has won the first prize in the motor vehicle maintenance body painting professional skills competition of Hunan Province transportation industry.

The 30 advanced teams awarded as "Chenzhou Pioneer workers" also were commended at the meeting. In recent years, the city's cadres and workers have actively participated in the labor competition of "practicing the new ideas and contributing for "13th Five-Year" and the election of "stars in ten industries" and "Chenzhou craftsmen" and other activities. The emergence of a group of advanced representatives with tough politics, superb skills, and excellent quality in the technical research and skills contest, fully demonstrated the superb professional skills and good spirit of Chenzhou workers.