On December 17, under the guidance of the Shandong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security and the Heze Municipal People's Government, sponsored by the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association, and undertaken by Heze Vocational College and Shandong Modern Supply Chain Research Institute, the 2023 Shandong Province "Skills Xinglu" Vocational Skills Competition and the 2nd Digital Technology Comprehensive Vocational Skills Competition were successfully held. The competition is divided into four categories: supply chain manager, cross-border e-commerce, freight forwarder, and financial technology division.

As a new university, since the first batch of new students enrolled in September 2023, each college has done a good job in the selection and incubation of the competition. With the help of a number of training rooms and equipment in the college, the School of Finance and Commerce has carried out teaching and competition training, adhered to the teaching concept of "promoting teaching by competition, promoting learning by competition, and combining competition with learning", created a good competition atmosphere, and laid a good foundation for achieving excellent results.

As an innovative vocational college, the school is committed to cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents with "new ideas, new models and new methods". In the actual teaching work, the vocational skills competition is combined with professional training goals, job requirements and national occupational standard requirements, and the theory and practice are combined to practice the development vision of "allowing every student to gain the ability to create a better life", so as to effectively improve the quality of talent training and provide important support for the high-quality development of urban construction.

The cross-border e-commerce competition aims to allow students to experience various management decision-making positions of enterprises, conduct market analysis, investment decision-making, and full-process simulation and confrontation. Based on the daily activities of typical cross-border e-commerce enterprises, the competition takes the operation of third-party stores and independent stations as the starting point, highly restores the daily operation activities of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, builds a business link of "procurement", --- "promotion" --- "sales", and divides the enterprise operation into six functional centers: strategic planning center, marketing center in operation, technology development center, logistics supply chain center, and financial center.