SIX top-notch teams made up of college students from home and abroad presented their research results in various cutting-edge fields, including Artificial Intelligence, digital twin, and computational imaging during the final of the eighth China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition held in Southwest China’s Chong-qing Municipality. This year’s competition was also the first Global Entrepreneurship Forum for College Students, held April 9.

Since its initiation in April 2022, a total of 14.5 million students from 4,554 colleges in 111 countries and regions signed up for the event, submitting 3.4 million research projects, making it the first time this competition drew over 10 million participants. After stringent selection and evaluation, four Chinese teams and two foreign teams reached the final. Nanjing University of Science and Technology won the championship for their creative research named Light and Shadow — Pioneer of Billion Pixel Infrared Intelligent Computational Imaging after fierce competition and intriguing presentations of their projects.

William Orbell, a British graduate of Oxford University who is now studying at Tsinghua University in China for further education, shared his feelings about the event with the attendees during the concurrent forum on entrepreneurship. He reached the final of the seventh China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition together with the South China University of Technology. Their project was centered on a carbon-free energy carrier, ammonia. According to the Green Ammonia Energy Storage System that his team developed, ammonia can meet the market need for cost-effective, long-term and large-scale energy storage, helping provide a practical and cost-effective solution to hydrogen storage and distribution.

The competition, first held in 2015, has thus far invited about 9.43 million teams featuring 39.83 million college students, aiming to encourage and inspire the students to innovate and start their own businesses. The ninth edition of the event is scheduled to be held in North China’s Tianjin Municipality.(Xinhua)