On October 30th, the 2016 Qingdao Financial Institutes' Comprehensive Skills Contest, sponsored by the Financial Trade Union of Qingdao, was held at SFTC. A total of 222 competitors from 54 banks, securities and insurance companies in Qingdao attended the contest. Vice President Zhou Houcai presided and addressed the opening ceremony.

The contest was divided into three sections – banking skills, security operation skills and insurance operation skills. The banking skills include – retail banking skills, corporate banking skills and manual operation skills (bank voucher counting and typing). The security operation include securities knowledge and regulations, and typing. The insurance operation skills are life insurance operation, auto insurance and non-auto insurance operation.

Owe to the careful arrangement of SFTC and the all-out endeavor of the judges and working staff, the contest went smoothly. During the contest, leaders from Qingdao Financial Trade Union and the contest team leaders visited SFTC's financial practical training rooms and Hainuocheng Financial Consulting Co., Ltd, a SFTC-affiliated financial company and attached full affirmation to the college's learning+working and theory+practice teaching mode.