On May 7, the final and award-giving ceremony of 2019 Digital China Innovation Competition were held at Fuzhou Strait International Conference & Exhibition Center. Wang Qinmin, Vice Chairman of the 12^th CPPCC and General Counselor of the Competition, and Li Dejin, Vice Governor of Fujian Province, attended the ceremony and presented the awards to the winning teams.

Yang Xueshan, professor of Peking University and former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Ni Guangnan and Li Peigen, both academicians of the CAS, delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.

This Competition has “Software-enabled Digital Economy and Innovation-driven Digital China” as its theme and designates six algorithm questions in the three major categories of big data, artificial intelligence and industrial Internet, i.e. “Cultural Inheritance: Multi-scene Identification of Chinese Calligraphy”, “Intelligent Tallying: AI Counting of Reinforcing Bars”, “Big Data Medicine: AI Diagnosis of Liver Cancer Images”, “Consumer Group Portrait: Intelligent Credit Rating”, “Intelligent Remedy of Offshore Windfarm SCADA Data Loss” and “Concrete Pump Truck Concrete Piston Failure Prealarm”. All these questions have originated from the practical application scenes of Huawei, China Mobile, Glodon Software, CECDATA and other enterprises and reflect the current social and industrial development needs. At the final, the 18 shortlisted teams, which stood out among all 8,000-odd teams during the online tryout and the division competition, fully demonstrated their charms and enlisted works through team introduction, solution explanation and expert Q&A. The judges scored the teams strictly according to the evaluation rules and determined the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd prize winners of the six questions after a whole day’s fierce competition. The winners of four individual awards, i.e. Best Commercial Potential Award, Best Algorithm Competence Award, Best Innovation Value Award and Best Field Performance Award, were also selected.

This Competition is expected to stimulate the innovation potentials of the contestants through the professional competition questions in various sectors, thus creatively addressing the practical problems encountered in all walks of life. It is also a stage for outstanding university students and enterprise data scientists to compare their wisdom and techniques and demonstrate their talents and a platform for enterprises to address practical problems and create new business modes through the integration of industrial, academic and researching resources.

During the final, “Human, Technical and Capital Resources: Closed-door Meeting on Innovation Ecology” was also held for an in-depth discussion on relevant subjects.

Leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China Internet Investment Foundation and China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID), You Mengjun and relevant leading officials of the governments of Fuzhou City and Fujian Province attended the events.