On March 25 and 26, 2023, the Huawei Cup 47th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia-East Continent Final Contest was held at Shanghai University, Baoshan Campus, attracting a total of 840 contestants of 280 teams from 144 universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Beihang University. Having previously won all the four available slots for a single university, Beihang sent four teams with 12 students to compete this time. All four teams achieved excellent results, winning 2 gold and 2 silver medals. For this final, Song You served as coach, and Liu Ziyuan, Zhong Zihao and Min Jiaxu served as assistant coaches.
ICPC is the world’s largest, highest level, and most highly participated contest of its kind. Known as the “Olympic Games” of the IT industry, the contest aims to enable college students to fully demonstrate their ability to analyze and solve problems through the computer. The contest is held once a year. In the 2022-2023 season, ICPC Asia-East Continent has set up 7 regional competitions, namely in Shenyang, Xi’an, Hefei, Jinan, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong. Tens of thousands of students participated in the preliminary election, among which thousands made it to the regional competitions. A total of 840 people from 280 teams advanced to the latest Asia-East Continent Final Contest.
At Beihang University, the ICPC competition is led by the Department of Academic Affairs and organized and implemented by the School of Software. Undergraduate students and graduate students from all schools participate in the event. Established in 2005, the ACM Training Team of Beihang University usually arranges a university-level competition on program design each year to select ACM contestants while also attempting to improve students’ basic capabilities in program design. Around 40 students from across the university will be selected to form a number of teams of three, and they will accept training in spring and summer. Later in September, they will begin to take part in ICPC network trials as well as live competitions.
ICPC regionals take place roughly once a week and usually last for half a year. Universities that advance through the regional contests and Asia-East Continent Final will be qualified to compete in the World Final of ICPC next year.
Reported by Qu Le
Reviewed by Lei Xiaofeng
Edited by Jia Aiping
Translated by Lu Meili
