The WorldSkills Competition is held every two years.The WorldSkills Competition was scheduled to be held in Shanghai, China in September 2021, but it was postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then cancelled because of the lockdown in Shanghai in June 2022.
The 46th WorldSkills Competition 2022 Special Edition took place in divisions as an alternative measure in 15 countries including Japan from September to November 2022. In the competition, Tetsuya Takayanagi successfully won the gold medal in welding, representing Hitachi Works.
