On June 1, the 15th China National Undergraduate “Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship” Challenge in Hubei Province was successfully concluded in Nanhu Campus of Wuhan University of Technology. The competition was organized by the Organizing Committee of the National College Students' E-commerce “Three Creation Competition” and Hubei E-commerce Society, and hosted by Wuhan University of Technology. Vice President Mai Liqiang, Undergraduate School Vice Dean Shi Bin, School of Economics, Entrepreneurship School of the relevant person in charge of the presence of 475 from 67 colleges and universities in the province to participate in the selection of Hubei Province.

At the opening ceremony, Prof. Mai Liqiang, Vice President of Wuhan University of Technology, on behalf of the school, expressed a warm welcome to the experts of the Teaching Guidance Committee for E-commerce in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, the experts of the Hubei University Students' E-commerce Sanchuang Match Competition Organizing Committee, and the expert judges and participants from various colleges, universities and enterprises in and out of the province.He pointed out that the school attaches great importance to innovation and entrepreneurship work, in recent years, closely around the background of the era of digital intelligence, and constantly deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.The 15th SCT Provincial Competition is held with the aim of implementing the positive action of the state on strengthening the work of college students' employment and entrepreneurship in the spirit of the relevant documents, deeply promoting innovation and entrepreneurship education and practical experimental teaching, better seizing the frontier of artificial intelligence, and promoting the cultivation of talents to better adapt to the national digital economy strategy.

Professor Li Qi of Xi'an Jiaotong University, chairman of the competition organizing committee of competition, delivered a speech on behalf of the organizers.He reviewed the development of the competition since its inception in 2009 and emphasized its value of nurturing people through the collaborative innovation between government, industry, academia, research and application.He emphasized that this year's competition, with the theme of "Stimulating Innovation and Cultivating Talents for Three Creations", young students focused on national strategies such as digital economy and rural revitalization, and contributed solutions with both creative depth and practical value with their keen business insights, excellent professional abilities and teamwork spirit.The competition has become an incubator for the training of innovative talents and a link for industry-university-research collaboration, and will continue to deepen school-enterprise cooperation in the future to cultivate a new generation of innovative forces for the high-quality development of the digital economy.

Mr. Zhang Liyi, President of Hubei E-commerce Society and Professor of Wuhan University, and other guests delivered speeches one after another.They highly evaluated the important role of "Three Creations Competition" in cultivating the innovation spirit, creative thinking and entrepreneurial ability of college students, and expressed great expectations for the participants.Prof. Peng Ling of Hubei University of Economics made a solemn oath on behalf of all judges to ensure the fairness and impartiality of the evaluation.Ms. Fan Shiling from the College of Economics of our university swore on behalf of all the contestants, showing a good competition style.After the opening ceremony, all the judges and the practical competition team entered the defense classroom in an orderly manner to enter the group review session.

As the top event in the field of e-commerce in national colleges and universities, the 15th Three Creation Competition set up regular competition, practical competition (including rural revitalization, cross-border e-commerce and other tracks), the Hubei District registered 12,209 teams, and after the rigorous selection of the school-level rounds, the 320 teams in the regular competition and 155 teams in the practical competition stood out and advanced to the Hubei Provincial Selection Competition.After two days of fierce competition, the Hubei Provincial Selection Competition decided 15 grand prizes, 80 first prizes and 112 second prizes in the Regular Competition; 2 grand prizes, 35 first prizes and 50 second prizes in the Practical Competition; and 22 schools were awarded the Outstanding Organization Award.

At the closing ceremony, Prof. Lu Xinyuan of Central China Normal University commented on the competition on behalf of all judges.He pointed out that this year's competition projects have a wide range of topics, focusing on artificial intelligence, big data, intelligent recommendation systems and other fields, emphasizing "intelligent", "personalized" solutions, through e-commerce to help agriculture, culture and tourism integration, regional branding, heritage of national culture.It helps rural economic development, national unity and common prosperity, and demonstrates the innovative consciousness and practical ability of Jingchu students to combine theoretical knowledge with practice.
Chen Donglin, dean of the School of Economics, made a concluding speech.He pointed out that "Three Creation Competition" is an important platform to strengthen the quality of innovation and entrepreneurship of students, and it is also a practical stage for learning to use and practicing innovation, which is a positive demonstration and promotion for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, promoting the innovation of practice teaching and promoting the deep integration of industry, academia and research.He congratulated all the winning teams and thanked the leaders, expert judges, teachers, students and staff involved in the activity.

The success of this tournament fully demonstrated the spirit of the new era of young students who dare to break through and forge ahead, highlighting the remarkable results of our university in innovation and entrepreneurship education.The competition not only promotes the deep docking between university e-commerce education and industrial demand, but also injects new vitality into the development of regional digital economy.The results of the competition fully embodied the institutional advantages and practical value of "government, industry, academia and research" fusion of education, and became a vivid footnote to the synergistic development of high-quality talent cultivation and industrial transformation and upgrading in Hubei.Looking ahead, it is believed that more and more young students will take this competition as a starting point, embrace the wave of technology, serve the needs of the society, display their talents and realize their ideals in the broad world of innovation and entrepreneurship, and contribute their wisdom and strength to the construction of Chinese-style modernization and the high-quality development of Hubei!
