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IPC COMMUNITY 70 SPRING 2023 Wistron Corporation, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Taiwan, is a major global supplier of information and communication technology products. Since joining IPC in 2013, Wistron has committed to promoting IPC standards within its companies and the whole industry. It includes IPC standards in its employee training system and uses skills competitions as a key part of that training. Global FAE Skills Competition started in 2019 and has been hosted by a different Wistron factory each year. IPC China was hon- ored to be invited as the chief judge and to provide onsite technical support, helping companies recognize their excellent techni- cal talents. This year, the competition took place Feb. 15–16 in Wistron Chengdu. Seven delegations from the group's domestic and Southeast Asian factories competed both onsite and online. Standards referenced in the competition included the latest revisions of IPC-A-610, IPC J-STD-001, IPC-7711/21, and IPC-7095. This year's competition had four events: DIY soldering, IPC standard knowledge, BGA rework, and circuit diagram troubleshoot- A China Skills Competition By Sydney Xiao, President, IPC Asia Operations IPC CHINA Championship Team: Wistron InfoComm (Zhongshan) Co. Ltd. Plant 1 • Championship team: Wistron InfoComm (Zhongshan) Co. Ltd. Plant 1 • DIY soldering competition winner: Mak Yang • IPC standard knowledge competition winner: Karen Shi • BGA rework competition and circuit diagram troubleshooting competition winner: Ye Zhang