In the post-industrialized economy of the modern world,skilled personnel plays a decisive role in promoting national economic development,therefore,it becomes a focus of attention to ensure qualified and sufficient skilled personnel for world manufacturing powers,which makes global competition of skilled personnel more and more intensified,thus speeding up the widespread shortages of skilled personnel in the world market. Thus,under the background of China's building of world manufacturing power,based on the discussion of the causes of shortage of skilled personnel in manufacturing center countries like Britain,America and Japan,the paper furtherly analyses the measures which are taken by the three countries and the effects of the measures,in order to provide a reference for China to cope with the shortage of skilled personnel.