Organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the China Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Students’ Federation and the Government of Sichuan Province, and undertaken by Sichuan University, the National Finals of the 17th “Challenge Cup” National Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works CompetitionforCollege Students were held from March 26th to 28th, where 49 works won the grand prize, 109 works won the first prize, 320 works won the second prize and 755 works won the third prize. The two works made by the School of Accounting and the School of Finance of Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance (SLU), which were shortlisted for the finals, passed the oral defense and won the second prize, marking a new breakthrough in the prizes taken from the “Challenge Cup”.
The SLU students focus on social reality, reflect academic advantages, invest in scientific innovation practice, and devote themselves to serving social development. The work “Research on the Impact of Farmers Using and Delivering Pesticides on Economy and Environment”, made by Fan Jiayi from the School of Accounting under the instruction of Wei Xiaoyan and other teachers, focuses on the impact of current pesticide use on the income of farmers and the environment. Based on 2,397 valid questionnaires that were collected after eight months of visit across three provinces and four regions, it introduced the scientific use of pesticides by building a promotion and operation system of pesticide reduction and efficiency increase, with the vision of building a beautiful China with green hills, clear waters and beautiful villages and cities. The work “The Hidden Divide: Research on the Difference of Digital Capital in the Era of Mobile Internet”, made by Chen Xinyu from the School of Finance under the instruction ofBaiTao and other teachers, focused on the digital divide and digital inequality in the Internet era against the background of China’s digital transformation and development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, explored the impact of digital capital on mobile phone use and its effect as well as high-risk behaviors, and found that the specialized DCI scale evaluation and education had a significant and positive effect on narrowing the difference of digital capital among different socio-economic groups and improving digital literacy.
The executive leadership of SLU attached great importance to participation in the “Challenge Cup” competition, provided strong support and guided the preparation. The functional departments and schools of SLU cooperated with each other and made timely adjustments to the oral defense plan for the national competition as required by the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic, to ensure that students could give full play to their oral defense under limited circumstances. The Youth League Committee of SLU made mobilization and organization, and secondary colleges provided detailed guidance. And internal and external experts were invited to offer more coaching to optimize the content and quality of the works.
The breakthrough in the prizes taken from the “Challenge Cup” has demonstrated the results of the efforts made by the SLU Youth League Committee to implement the innovation capacity building project for the students. Going forward, it will continue to press ahead with the competition to better meet the scientific innovation needs of students, coordinate the resources of SLU and businesses, serve and guide more students to participate in scientific innovation, and build an innovation capacity building system, in a bid to better promote the overall development of SLU, and contribute to faster progress of students in innovation.
Photo by Youth League Committee and the defense team
