Recently, the national final of the Ninth Lanqiao Cup National Software and Information Technology Professional Contest (Lanqiao Contest)has come to a close in Beijing. Under the guidance of Professor Zhang Hongming and Associate Professor Wang Meili, Jia yaguang, Ling Yu, Jiang Jincen and other eighteen Grade 14 software engineering major students from Northwest A&F University won two second prizes, eleven third prizesand fourhonorable prizes of individual competition.

The Lanqiao Cup Contest lasted 8 months. More than 50,000 students of computer, software, electronic information and other related majors from more than 1,200 colleges and universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong Universitybesides Northwest A&F Universityparticipated in the competition. Among them, more than 5,000 first prize winners of Lanqiao Cup provincial contests gathered in Beijing to compete for the highest honor ofLanqiao Cup.

In this competition, Northwest A&F University was for the first time chosen as the provincial contest site. Students from NWAFU had outstanding performance in the provincial contest as 20 were awarded the first prize, 49 second prize and 72 third prize, breaking the university’s record of the number of participants in the final.

Translated by Li Tingyan

Proofread by Yan Xianhu