Secretary of the Party Committee of Chengdu University Liu Qiang takes over the flag of the 17th Challenge Cup
From May 22 to May 24, the 16th “Challenge Cup” Sichuan Provincial College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest was held in Sichuan Normal University. On May 24, Liu Qiang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Chengdu University, attended the closing ceremony and took over the flag of the 17th Challenge Cup from Zhang Rong, Secretary of Sichuan Committee of the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC), marking that Chengdu University obtains the right to host the 17th “Challenge Cup” Sichuan Provincial College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest in 2023.
At the meeting of the Organizing Committee of the 16th “Challenge Cup” held earlier, Peng Xiaolin, Vice President of Chengdu University, made a report on the application for hosting the 17th :Challenge Cup” Sichuan Provincial Contest in 2023 on behalf of Chengdu University. The meeting approved Chengdu University's right to host the 17th session in 2023.
Chengdu University won four first prizes, four second prizes and seven third prizes in the 16th “Challenge Cup” Sichuan Provincial Contest and was awarded the Excellent Organization Award with the total score ranking the sixth place (tied) among the colleges and universities in Sichuan, receiving another Champion Cup after 2019. The contest lasted for several months, attracting nearly 100,000 young students from 91 universities across Sichuan Province, receiving over 13,000 entries from the online channel. After preliminary online evaluation, offline debate and expert discussion, 80 first prize works, 160 second prize works and 560 third prize works were selected.
Jointly sponsored by the CYLC Sichuan Provincial Committee, the Organization Department of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, Sichuan Association for Science and Technology, the Education Department of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province, the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Sichuan Province, and Sichuan Students' Federation, the contest aims to further guide the college students in Sichuan to develop a scientific spirit and attitude, learn scientific knowledge and methods, participate in the innovation-driven development strategy, and contribute to promoting self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology and building a powerful China through science and technology.
Setting great store by the cultivation of students' innovation ability, Chengdu University has guided its students to learn scientific knowledge and methods, serve Chengdu's positioning as a national central city, and participate in China's innovation-driven development strategy, making every effort to build a practice-based education system led by academic and scientific activities. Based on the 12th "Kechuang Cup" contest, the traditional student extracurricular academic science and technology activity of Chengdu Univerisity, we started to prepare for the 16th “Challenge Cup” in November 2020. All colleges actively mobilized their teachers and students to submit projects, and organized experts and professors to conduct preliminary examinations on the works. After a collective review of over 200 works by experts and scholars inside and outside the university, we determined 41 projects to be incubated. During the incubation of these projects, the university provided systematic training and one-on-one guidance in terms of project diagnosis, contest techniques, material optimization, and evaluation priorities through expert guidance, school-level selection, contest simulation, and other activities, expanding the research approaches, enhancing the project quality, and laying a solid foundation for the 16th “Challenge Cup”.
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The “Challenge Cup” is a directive, demonstrative and mass national contest jointly sponsored by the CYLC Central Committee, China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the Ministry of Education (MOE), All-China Students' Federation (ACSF), and local provincial governments, hosted by renowned universities in China, and launched by news media in China. Since the inaugural session held in 1989, the contest has upheld the tenet of "advocating science, seeking true knowledge, studying diligently, striving for innovation, and rising to challenges". It has played an active role in cultivating innovative young people, enhancing quality education in colleges and universities, and promoting economic and social development, with a widespread benign impact on universities and even society. It is dubbed the "Olympiad" of science and technology innovation for contemporary Chinese college students.
