Blue-collar jobs now back in vogue

Shortage of skilled workers makes vocational education a more attractive option for young people, as Su Zhou reports.

After graduating from junior middle school, Wang Shuai wandered around the Beijing suburbs that summer wondering what to do next. He loved to take things apart and put them back together when he was kid, and fate lead him to Beijing Industrial Technician College, where he "fell in love" with a CNC milling machine.

And Wang's love affair grew when he learned the college had been chosen to be the national training center for CNC turning and milling for the WorldSkills Competition, the biennial international flagship event for vocational education and skills excellence.