General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that only by comprehensively and deeply understanding the history of Chinese civilization can we more effectively promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and more vigorously promote the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. In the process of Chinese civilization, skill civilization is a brilliant pearl. Technology is a creative driving force that empowers people with skills and adds fuel to promote economic growth and social development. Civilization is the result of human progress in transforming the subjective and objective world, and is a unified form of material civilization, institutional civilization, and spiritual civilization that rely on each other. Skill civilization is an important part of human civilization and Chinese civilization. Its smooth development requires the formation of a social atmosphere where the country respects skills, society admires skills, and everyone learns skills, reversing the concept of "emphasizing diplomas over skills". At the same time, it promotes professional spirit, respects vocational education, rewards the value created by vocational education, realizes the goal of "more skilled people", and inspires more young people to become skilled talents and serve the country with skills. Making Life Better Skills Civilization has unique attributes, connotations, and development paths, with strong inclusiveness, cohesion, and vitality. Skill civilization is related to human survival and development. The process of improving the skills of workers is not only the process of increasing human capital, but also the process of realizing the value of life. The Yan Family Instructions: Encouragement for Learning "states:" It is better to have a few skills than to accumulate wealth of ten million. "Today, we advocate" having one skill in hand, a lifetime of worry free ". Having a skill in hand is the direction of success and the requirement for economic development; A worry free life is the expectation of individuals and families, and the hope for social stability. Skills are not only an important support for personal survival and well-being, but also the key to standing out in one's career. Skill civilization is related to the creation of material wealth. Vocational education is an education that creates value, helps people acquire skills, enhance innovation awareness and ability, and is an important force in improving industrial efficiency, promoting lasting inclusiveness and sustainable economic growth. It is also an important force in promoting full and productive employment, promoting people's well-being, and creating a better life. The relationship between skills, civilization, and spiritual wealth creation. The development process of skill civilization is also a process of producing spiritual products, meeting human spiritual needs, and accumulating spiritual wealth. And advocating labor and respecting technology is one of the spiritual driving forces for the development of skill civilization. In the new era, we must promote the era of glorious labor, precious skills, and great creativity, create a good environment where everyone can succeed and fully display their talents, promote comprehensive human development, promote high-quality economic and social development, and promote the leap of skill civilization through the rapid development of science and technology and the progress of skills. Long standing skills are essential abilities for humans to transform the world and create history, passed down from generation to generation. China has a human history of millions of years, a cultural history of ten thousand years, and a civilization history of over five thousand years. Skill civilization is the cultural gene of the Chinese nation's long-lasting prosperity. Agricultural social skills civilization represented by handicraft production. Handicrafts, accompanied by agricultural civilization, have important creative functions in traditional society and were originally the foundation of human survival. About 3500 BC, humans transitioned into civilized society and gradually mastered and applied a series of iconic production and technological achievements, constantly "updating" social productivity and improving labor efficiency. The "Kaogong Ji" during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period recorded the content of 30 occupations in six major categories, including woodworking, metalworking, leather, dyeing, scraping and grinding, and ceramics, reflecting the level of technology and craftsmanship achieved by China at that time. Industrial society skill civilization represented by large machine production. In industrial society, the machine industry replaces the function of holding and manipulating tools with work machines, and replaces the function of providing power with steam engines. Machine production has changed the technical conditions of labor, enabling natural science to be consciously applied to production and significantly improving labor productivity. At the same time, machine production has also changed the organization of social labor and the nature of labor cooperation, greatly improving the degree of labor socialization. The Communist Manifesto states: "The productive forces created by the bourgeoisie in its less than one hundred years of class rule are greater and greater than all the productive forces created in all previous generations." Marx and Engels revealed and criticized the exploitative nature of the capitalist mode of production. Intelligent social skills civilization represented by robot production. The intelligent production mode brought by artificial intelligence technology has changed the modern human labor mode and organizational approach, gradually providing material and technological conditions for human labor liberation. The intelligent production method of machines replacing humans is manifested as "unmanned" and "automated", creating a new digital civilization. Learning from others' strengths is a silent international language that facilitates mutual learning and exchange. The skill civilization of the Chinese nation reflects the inclusive nature of Chinese culture, and therefore determines an open mind to embrace the world's skill civilization. The broad atmosphere of the Chinese nation's skill civilization is due to the open attitude and inclusive mind of Chinese culture since ancient times. China has contributed astronomical calendar, traditional Chinese medicine, the Four Great Inventions, etc. to the world and has had a great impact on the world. Since modern times, Western civilization has initially developed on the basis of learning and borrowing from Eastern civilization. Marx pointed out that "gunpowder, compass, and printing were the three great inventions that foreshadowed the arrival of bourgeois society." The Renaissance freed the Western world from the ignorance of the Middle Ages, but little did they know that the revival of ancient Greek and Roman culture relied on Arab civilization, especially the "Hundred Years of Translation Movement" in the mid to late 8th century. The widespread dissemination of these handwritten Greek classics also benefited from the westward transmission of Chinese papermaking. Whether it is to enhance the cohesion and appeal of advanced culture internally or to enhance the dissemination and influence of Chinese civilization externally, it cannot be separated from the integration of China and foreign countries, and the connection between ancient and modern times. After the opening of the Silk Road, fruit and vegetable crops from Central Asia, West Asia, India, the Mediterranean, and Africa began to enter China. With the development of maritime trade routes, crops from Southeast Asia are gradually being introduced into China. Foreign cultures are introduced along with crops, and through exchange and mutual learning, they are integrated with local customs to form a constantly self-renewal agricultural civilization system. The beginning of China's large-scale introduction of Western industrial civilization can be traced back to the middle of the 19th century. After the Opium War, China saw the technological advantages of the West's "strong ships and good guns". The Qing government chose to "learn from the foreigners to master their skills" and began to actively promote the "Westernization Movement". After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, we drew on the experience of the Soviet Union and built an independent industrialization system. Since the reform and opening up, we have drawn on advanced world experience to develop our economy. In the new era, the construction of new industrialization is shaping a skilled civilization with Chinese characteristics. The exchange and mutual learning of skills and civilization have promoted Chinese civilization. In today's era, we need to extract the spiritual symbols of the Chinese nation's skill civilization, and spread more skill civilization with Chinese characteristics, reflecting Chinese spirit, and containing Chinese wisdom to the world; Widely establish international exchange and cooperation platforms such as the World Conference on the Development of Vocational and Technical Education, participate in the dialogue of world skills civilization, share experiences with countries, promote mutual learning and mutual assistance, and jointly promote the development and progress of human skills civilization. For thousands of years, there have been countless skilled craftsmen in history who have created brilliant material civilization and left behind a rich lineage of skilled civilization for future generations. In ancient times, there were Lu Ban, Mozi, Zhang Heng, and more recently, there were Zhang Jian, Zhan Tianyou, Huang Yanpei, and others. In the long history of Chinese civilization, the level of craftsmanship of skilled craftsmen has attracted worldwide attention. However, due to the society's emphasis on culture and light industry at that time, for a long time, the treasures they created with extraordinary wisdom and nimble hands were regarded as "small skills of carving insects". Adhering to the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, the CPC has gradually changed this backward view of labor and established a Marxist view of labor. During the New Democratic Revolution, the CPC carried out mass production campaigns and labor competitions in the base areas to promote production. With the establishment and development of military and civilian industries, a large number of outstanding workers represented by Zhao Zhankui and Wu Yunduo emerged. Their production achievements laid an important material foundation for the victory of the New Democratic Revolution. After the founding of New China, the Party led the people throughout the country to carry out industrial construction, and a number of skilled craftsmen emerged, such as Wang Jinxi, Hao Jianxiu, Ni Zhifu, Xu Zhenchao, etc. Under the deployment of the Party and the state, small-scale production and industry have developed into large-scale production and industry, and a relatively complete industrial system has gradually been established. Many major projects have been completed, and important national weapons have been introduced one after another. China has caught up with the world's advanced level. With the development of society, it has become a trend for professions to have no hierarchy, for labor to be honorable, for skills to be valuable, and for creation to be great. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "the best inheritance of history is to create new history, and the greatest respect for human civilization is to create new forms of human civilization." Chinese style modernization has created new forms of human civilization. In the current era of global rejuvenation and century long changes, skills have become an important force for achieving high-quality development, and skilled talents are important subjects of China's manufacturing and creation. Cultivating skilled talents who can adapt to technological progress and the development of the times, and building a large-scale, structurally reasonable, and high-quality skilled workforce, are necessary conditions for developing skilled civilization and creating new forms of human civilization. In the new era and new journey, the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation require the promotion of the spirit of model workers, labor spirit, and craftsmanship, and the cultivation of more high-quality skilled talents and national craftsmen. To this end, we need to increase publicity efforts to the whole society, so that the seed of the concept of "one skill in hand, worry free for a lifetime" can take root and form a good atmosphere of "advocating one skill and not relying solely on academic qualifications and abilities". The professional and employment views of the whole society, as well as people's values, will undergo profound changes. More and more workers can achieve their life ideals, serve the development of the country, and realize their dreams of becoming skilled and serving the country through their skills. This is a necessary process for the country to enter modernization, and also an important symbol of the construction of a socialist strong country. Author: Zeng Tianshan (Deputy Director and Researcher of the Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute of the Ministry of Education)