The 14th ‘Challenge Cup QinChuangYuan Platform National College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition ational Final was held from 29 October to 2 November at Xi'an Jiaotong University. The competition is a guiding, exemplary, practical and popular entrepreneurial exchange activity organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the China Association for Science and Technology, the All-China Students Federation, and the Municipal People's Government

This year's competition gathered more than 390,000 innovation and entrepreneurship projects from more than 2,700 universities in more than 60 countries, and more than 3 million students participated in the competition. 839 projects from 412 mainland universities and 14 international universities entered into the final evaluation of the national final after the preliminary competition at the school level, the provincial level, and the preliminary evaluation of the national final.

After fierce competitions, six students from the second year of the Faculty of Data Science co-organised by the City University of Macau and the Minzu University of China , Li Dongxiao, Tian Xingyuan, Xie Yizhe, Zhang Xinyue, Chen Ruinan, and Chang Shangxu from the Hainan International College of Minzu University , under the guidance of the assistant professors from the faculty of Data Science, namely, Jing Fengshi, Qi Minfeng, and Zhang Lefeng; and the deans from the School of Information Engineering of Minzu University, Weng Yu, and the teachers from Hainan International College, Liu Ying. The project ‘Light of the Heart: Cardiac Imaging and Image Segmentation and Recognition System’ stood out from the rest and was awarded the Silver Prize in the main competition.

This project effectively solves the three main technical difficulties in cardiac imaging: key frame extraction, blood vessel segmentation, and clogged blood vessel prediction. In this project, three core AI models are opened and tested: the independently improved SVS-Net is used to accurately extract key frames from the imaging video; the local adaptive YOLOv8 architecture based on fine-tuning and pioneering attention-head technology is added to achieve highly efficient blood vessel segmentation; and the fine-tuning-optimised Diffusion model image generator improves the image quality and at the same time uses the Diffusion model to predict and supplement the missing blockages. The Diffusion model can be used to predict and supplement missing and blocked blood vessels, providing doctors with more comprehensive diagnostic information.

The competition is based on the entrepreneurship programme, from the perspective of practical education, to guide and encourage students to carry forward the spirit of the times, grasp the pulse of the times, through the launch of extensive social practice, profound social observation, and constantly enhance the understanding of the state of the nation, social conditions and people's conditions, the knowledge and economic and social development of the close integration, to improve the innovation, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurial awareness and ability to enhance the ability to socialise, and to contribute to the development of a strong modern socialist country, and the construction of a socialist modernisation of the country. To contribute to the building of a strong modern socialist country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese.

Sharing of Participation in the Competition

Sharing by students:

Li Dongxiao (Director):

It is a great honour for me to win the Silver Prize in the Competition. As the youngest team in the main competition, this award is not easy for us to win in our second year of undergraduate studies, and it is a great recognition and affirmation of our work in the previous year's competition. ‘From the initial conception to the gradual implementation of the project, every step of the project has been based on refinement and practice. I would like to thank my supervisor, Assistant Professor Jing Fengshi, and PhD student Ren Hao for their careful advice and guidance, and I would like to thank each member of the team for their dedication and commitment. It is my greatest honour to lead such a team full of passion and motivation, and it is precisely through their selfless dedication and talent that we have been able to overcome numerous challenges and achieve great success by ‘competing instead of practicing’. It is through their selfless dedication and talent that we have been able to overcome countless challenges and make great progress. We are also well aware that the silver medal in the national competition is only a milestone achievement, and there is still much to be explored and polished in the project. As the water flows, we are also striving to be the first and the best. Thanks to the platform provided by CityU, Minzu University, Faculty of Data Science, Student Affairs Office and Ung Choi Kun Entrepreneurship and Career Centre, our team will continue to work hard and strive to make more achievements in the undergraduate stage.

Tian Xingyuan:

I am honoured to have won the Silver Prize in the Competition. From the initial conception to the actual implementation, our team worked together to not only overcome technical challenges, but also gradually formed a tacit understanding in teamwork. Over the past year, our project has matured through repeated testing and improvement, and each competition has become an opportunity for us to improve, with every member of the team contributing their efforts and wisdom. This silver award is not only a recognition of our efforts, but also a motivation. We look forward to further improving the project in the future, so that it will not only be used in competitions, but also in real life applications.

Yi-Chieh Hsieh:

We are very honoured to win the silver medal in the competition. During the process, we have participated in many competitions, each of which has made our project better and our teamwork more seamless, and winning the silver medal motivates us to continue to optimise and promote our project in the future.

Zhang Xinyue:

The Silver Award is the most beautiful tribute to our relentless pursuit and in-depth research. This honour is a recognition of our innovative spirit and entrepreneurial ideas, and it is an inexhaustible incentive for us to continue to move forward. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our mentors for their careful guidance and team members for their concerted efforts. Taking this as a new starting point, we will continue to improve our project, pursue excellence, and continue to write our wonderful entrepreneurial story with passion and wisdom.

Chen Ruinan:

This achievement is the result of the hard work and wisdom of our team members, and is a recognition of our project concept and practice. We will continue to work hard to bring our project to a wider stage and make a positive impact on the society.

Chang Shangxu:

This is the fruit of our team members' hard work and research, and this award is a recognition of our innovative thinking and entrepreneurial plan, and gives us more confidence to move forward on the road of entrepreneurship. We are grateful to our mentors for their careful guidance and our teammates for their concerted efforts. With this award as a new starting point, we will continue to polish our project and work towards a higher goal, writing a more wonderful chapter of entrepreneurship with passion and wisdom.

Mentor sharing:

Assistant Professor Jing Fengshi:

I am honoured to be the mentor of this project and the leader of the Macao SAR team to participate in this competition. Among the instructors of this project, Zhang Lefeng assistant professor and I are also the instructors of the first honours class of the City University of Macau. In the context of the co-operation between the University and Shenzhen X-Institute in the cultivation of talents in the Honours Class, the concepts of our instructors in the cultivation of undergraduates' innovative talents are also borrowed and learnt from the successful experience and advanced ideas of Tsinghua University's Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program and ShenzhenX-Institute. We would like to thank Professor Zhu Tianqing, the Director of the Honours Class, and Professor Sun Pei of the Honours Class Working Group for their help and support to our young teachers in the undergraduate guidance.

On the other hand, the Lingshui Lian International Education Innovation Pilot Zone in Hainan is a key zone for implementing the spirit of the General Secretary's National Education Conference, which emphasises the need to promote the opening up of education to the outside world and to co-ordinate the ‘bringing in’ and ‘going out’ instructions. The silver award project team of the City University from our school and the 985 mainland universities Minzu University in Hainan Lingshui co-operation in the ‘intelligent technology and services - data science and big data technology’ double degree programme. We would also like to express our sincere thanks to Associate Dean Liu Wenjian (Teaching and Learning) and Programme Coordinator Chu ChiaWei (Programme Leader, Hainan) for their support and assistance to the students from the Hainan Lingshui Campus in representing CityU in the competition.