● Food writer, National Model Worker, recipient of the National May Day Labor Medal, and Great Craftsman of the Nation.
● Expert entitled to the State Council Special Allowance; founder of a national-level Master Craftsman Studio.
● Recipient of Suzhou’s highest talent award and the National Vocational Education Outstanding Contribution Award.
● Recipient of the French Knight’s Medal.
● Has devoted decades to the food industry, investing heavily in training world-competition contestants and in technical R&D.
● Actively explores the work-study integrated teaching model, formulates industry technical standards, and has edited numerous professional books and journals.
● Has coached contestants to multiple gold, silver and bronze medals as well as Medallions for Excellence at the WorldSkills Competition, and multiple gold medalists at China’s National Vocational Skills Competition.
● Has led his team to compete in major industry events worldwide, winning dozens of world championships.
● Has devoted his life to bringing Chinese cuisine to the world stage.
● China’s first dual world champion in bread baking.
● Champion of the IBA World Bakery Competition in Munich, Germany.
● World Bread Ambassador; Champion of the World Bread Competition Six Nations Elite Championship.
● Senior lecturer, Jiangsu Provincial Technical Expert, and China Baking Master.
● Founder of the Pengbei Baking Technology R&D Center.
● National vocational skills referee, national vocational skills appraisal examiner, and senior technician of Western-style pastry.
● Artistic Bread Champion at the World Bread Competition Grand Finals.
● Chief referee of the China division of the IBA World Bakery Competition in Munich, Germany.
● China technical expert for the WorldSkills Competition Baking project; head of the coaching team for the Chinese national training squad’s Baking project.
● Referee of the WorldSkills Competition China national trials; chief referee of the Baking group at the Jiangsu Skills Championship.
● Awarded a second-class merit by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security for outstanding performance at the WorldSkills Competition.
● Officially certified expert of the China International Import Expo (Shanghai).
● Author of “The Bread Encyclopedia”, “The Bread Textbook”, and “The Natural Yeast Bread Making Textbook”.
● HOU JINCHEN — Gold Medalist, Bakery, 48th WorldSkills Competition
● Born in 2005, culinary student at Suzhou Wuzhong Technician College.
● Fell in love with baking at 12, drawn by the idea that baking could win a world championship; his first bake after systematic training was a baguette.
● Coached by Gong Xin, a member of BRESSO’s Champion Consultant Team and his longtime idol.
● His winning showpiece: a Kung Fu Panda artistic bread — a panda in a bamboo hat puppeteering a galloping horse, blending paper-cutting, shadow puppetry, mortise-and-tenon joinery, auspicious clouds, and peony motifs.
● Career highlights: 2019 Wangsen Youth Skills Competition champion; 2022 6th Jiangsu Skills Competition silver; 2023 national selection for the 47th WorldSkills, 1st place; 2023 2nd National Skills Competition bronze; 2023 World Bread Competition China Finals, Best Organic Bread; 2025 3rd National Skills Competition gold; 2026 48th WorldSkills Competition gold.
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