According to press conference of 2nd Digital China Summit, the final and awarding ceremony of 2019 Digital China Innovation contest will be held today.

An online preliminary contest was launched before. Six questions were set up for the online contest: Cultural Inheritance: Multi-scene Recognition 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 Fault Early Warning of Concrete Pump Trucks and Concrete Pistons. Contestants are divided into six groups according to different questions. The top 10 teams of each group stood out from the online contest and a total of 60 teams entered regional finals which were held in Shanghai, Xi’an, Beijing and Fuzhou respectively. Later, the top 3 teams of each group won regional finals and a total of 18 teams advanced to the final.

It is learned that the 18 teams will attend a field oral defense centering on the six questions in today’s final in a bid for the first, second and third prizes of the six contest questions, and other four individual awards, i.e. Best Commercial Potential Award, Best Algorithm Competence Award, Best Innovation Value Award and Best Field Performance Award.

As an important constituent of the 2nd Digital China Summit, the Contest has “Software-empowered Digital Economy and Innovation-driven Digital China” as its theme and is expected to contribute to the construction of the new landscape of the Summit featuring “One Summit, One Exhibition and One Contest”. The Contest is a major innovation and will grow into a brand event.

The Contest has attracted 8,915 contestants from 451 universities and 1,182 enterprises. These contestants come from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Stanford University, Oxford University, Waseda University and other famous domestic and foreign universities, and also Microsoft, Intel, Inspur, Institute of Automation, CAS, Research Institute of Tsinghua Pearl River Delta and many other famous enterprises and scientific research institutes.