Heilongjiang Net News (Reporter Xu Nan) On September 25, the 6th China Graduate Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition of "Huawei Cup" opened in Harbin. A total of 2,618 teams from 310 colleges and universities signed up for the competition, with 8,402 participants, and after fierce competition, 200 teams from 91 colleges and universities advanced to the national finals.
The competition is guided by the Department of Academic Degrees Management and Graduate Education of the Ministry of Education, co-sponsored by the Chinese Association of Academic Degrees and Graduate Education and the Youth Science and Technology Center of the China Association for Science and Technology, co-sponsored by the Office of the Talent Work Leading Group of the Harbin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, undertaken and guided by the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Education, and undertaken by Harbin Engineering University.
Song Yingdong, President of Harbin Engineering University, delivered a welcome speech. He said that the university attaches great importance to the cultivation of graduate students' innovative practice ability, continuously optimizes policy supply, strengthens competition guidance and training, continuously improves the competition incentive and guarantee mechanism, builds an interdisciplinary innovation practice platform, and continuously improves the ability of practical education. As the organizer of this competition, the school has carefully prepared and made every effort to build a high-quality exchange and learning platform. In the future, we will continue to deepen the integration of industry and education, science and education, and provide more powerful talent support for the development of the field of artificial intelligence.
Ma Zhiyong, deputy secretary of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy head of the Talent Work Leading Group of the Municipal Party Committee, said that this competition is an appointment of innovation, talent, integration, and the "trinity" of education, science and technology, and talents. It is hoped that the outstanding teams, experts and scholars participating in the competition will deepen cooperation with Harbin in terms of industrial development, school-local cooperation, talent training, innovation and entrepreneurship, etc., and jointly build a "community of destiny" for talents for revitalization and development.
Duan Guangren, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that this competition is an important carrier and powerful starting point for testing scientific research and innovation achievements and exercising and improving students' innovation ability. It is necessary to promote integration, teaching and learning through competition, and adhere to product demand as the main driving force to improve students' ability to design and implement the system. It is necessary to highlight the combination of goal-oriented and demand-oriented, actively condense scientific and technological issues, focus on the needs of the country's future development strategy and economic and social development, cultivate innovative thinking, and improve practical ability.
Ding Xuemei, vice president of the Chinese Association of Academic Degrees and Graduate Education, said that the holding of this competition is a concentrated display of the educational achievements of graduate students in the field of artificial intelligence in mainland China, and an important promotion of the development of the artificial intelligence industry in Northeast China and the whole country. It is hoped that the participating students can cherish this rare opportunity, actively participate in the innovative practice of artificial intelligence, promote learning through competition, promote application through learning, and help promote the progress and development of artificial intelligence-related industries.
This competition is composed of open propositions, local competition questions, and enterprise competition questions, and the participating teams can choose the type of competition questions independently. Open propositions are divided into two categories: technological innovation and application creativity. The technological innovation category emphasizes the combination of software and hardware, and examines the design and display of prototype systems; The application creativity category emphasizes the scenarios in major fields, and examines the feasibility of the technology and the potential value of the application. For the first time, an international group was set up in this competition. The national finals are divided into group defense competitions and open finals, and the shortlisted teams are divided into 6 groups for defense, with a total of 18 teams competing for the championship, second and third place. 90 teams from Harbin Engineering University participated in the competition, of which 11 were shortlisted for the national finals.
Launched in 2019, the China Graduate Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition aims to build a stage for selecting and displaying outstanding innovative practice works in the field of artificial intelligence, enhance the creative ability, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit of graduate students, and help cultivate high-level innovative talents in the field of artificial intelligence.
Heads of relevant provincial and municipal departments such as the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Municipal Education Bureau, the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, and the Harbin Venture Capital Group attended the opening ceremony. (Photo courtesy of Harbin Engineering University)