Just now, the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) announced the results of the competition, as one of the six participants of the Chinese team, Shi Haojia, a sophomore student of Hailiang Senior High School, won the gold medal with a full score again after last year, the only perfect score in this IMO, and he also became the fourth student in China and the first student in Zhejiang to win the IMO double perfect score gold medal.
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) began in 1959 and is internationally recognized as the most influential and highest-level mathematics competition, generally held in July every year, with the purpose of stimulating young people's mathematical talents, arousing young people's interest in mathematics, discovering the reserve army of scientific and technological talents, and promoting the exchange and development of mathematics education in various countries. The selection of IMO Chinese national team players is generally in March, two rounds of training team selection, and finally 6 people are selected to form a national team to participate in the IMO. More than 600 young people from more than 110 countries participated. The competition consists of two consecutive days (about 4.5 hours) of math exams, each of which contains three questions.
Among the six players sent by the Chinese team this time, Shi Haojia from Hailiang Senior High School and Wang Chunji from Shanghai Middle School both won gold medals with perfect scores at the 64th IMO in 2023. Before this year, the last winner of a double perfect score was Wei. He represented China twice in 2008 and 2009 and won two perfect gold medals. In 2002 and 2003, Fu also achieved two competitions and two perfect scores. But he is still not the first Chinese team player to achieve a double perfect score gold medal, Luo, who participated in the IMO in 1991 and 1992, won two perfect score gold medals, becoming the first Chinese team player to participate twice and get a perfect score twice.
As a "child of someone else's family", Shi Haojia showed great talent during his studies at Hailiang Primary School and Hailiang Junior High School. After entering Hailiang Senior High School, the school developed a personalized training method for him according to his personal characteristics, and the gold medal coach team was responsible for teaching and guidance. In the selection of the 2021 "Chengtong Yau Mathematical Sciences Leading Talent Training Program", Shi Haojia was successfully shortlisted and was personally invited by Mr. Yau Chengtong for an exchange and interview.
How was Shi Haojia's "Full Score International Mathematics Olympiad Gold Medal" made?
Hailiang Senior High School has won the Mathematics Olympiad for many years. The achievement of these excellent results is inseparable from the hard work and personalized education and training of the mathematics competition coaching team. In addition to the daily teaching of competition courses, they also undertake the teaching and training of candidates for the Tsinghua New Leaders Program, providing strong guidance for students to study university mathematics courses, and laying a solid foundation for them to achieve excellent results in the selection examination.
Led by the mathematics competition, in the past two years, the students of Hailiang Senior High School have achieved outstanding results and performed well in the five major competitions of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and informatics, and have won 2 international gold medals, 16 national gold medals and 4 silver medals, of which 6 people have been selected into the national training team, and the number of winners ranks first in Shaoxing City and in the forefront of Zhejiang Province.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward that education, science and technology, and talents are the basic and strategic support for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, emphasizing "efforts to cultivate top-notch innovative talents". Hailiang Education actively responds to the call of the party and the state, takes Zhuji Hailiang Senior High School as the highland of excellent education, establishes a training mechanism for school sections, and strives to build a science and technology high school and a smart campus, so as to cultivate a fertile soil for the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents.
The good results achieved by Hailiang students this time are the crystallization of Hailiang Education's deep cultivation in the field of top-notch talent training. In the future, Hailiang Education will continue to empower more basic education schools, especially in educationally weak counties, with the cultivation of top-notch talents as the entry point to help the revitalization of rural education and contribute to the construction of a strong country in education.