YNU delivers impressive results at intl innovation event

The national finals of the China International College Students' Innovation Competition (2025) were recently held at Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province. Yunnan University (YNU), from Southwest China's Yunnan province, delivered an outstanding performance, winning a total of two silver medals and 11 bronze medals.

Some participants from YNU pose for a group photo at the finals of the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition (2025) in Zhengzhou. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

These national-level achievements are a result of thorough preparations and steady performance during the university and provincial competition stages. During the campus competition phase, YNU saw enthusiastic participation, with 1,309 innovation projects submitted by undergraduate and graduate students and 32 projects entering the provincial final round.

After the intense competition at the provincial finals, a project titled "world's first vertical empowerment platform for intelligent manufacturing in the tin–indium industry" secured third place. In addition, 18 projects, including one titled "non-invasive intelligent monitoring and energy efficiency optimization platform for chemical equipment", won provincial gold awards, while 13 projects received silver awards and 16 were granted bronze awards.

A total of 6.19 million projects from 161 countries and regions were submitted since the event was launched in April 2025, with 4,720 entries shortlisted for the national finals.

The competition featured five major tracks, covering cutting-edge fields such as new engineering, new medicine, new agriculture, new liberal arts, and AI. Other tracks focused on serving rural vitalization, promoting industry-academia-research integration through enterprise-oriented challenges, encouraging innovation projects in vocational education, and fostering creativity among students in basic and secondary education.