author:School of Finance and Tradesource:Time:2022-06-03 15:25:00
On June 2, the preliminary selection of Digital Technology Innovation Competition of the 13th Blue Bridge Cup National Software and Information Technology Professionals Competition—Financial Technology Innovation Competition, organized by the Blue Bridge Cup Organizing Committee, was successfully completed, in which a total of 17 teams across the country have entered the finals. The WZBC students Chen Le Ping, Chen Yan Long and Yan Zhicheng participated and with their entry “MetaBank—a Financial Retirement Community Based on Meta-Universe Technology”, supervised by the in-campus mentor Mr. Lin Qing, Mr. Hu Yifan and off-campus mentor Mr. Liu Xue Bin, won the first prize in the national selection competition and successfully advanced to the finals.
MetaBank aims to establish a virtual bank based on the existing business of banks, using blockchain identification and other technologies, so that users can enjoy the same services as that of offline banks in a virtual bank like Meta-Universe. With this product, users can enjoy the convenience of banking without having to leave home, as if they were in a physical bank, and thus can meet the financial service demands of elderly customers in particular. Besides empowering the traditional banking industry and solving the problem of financial inclusion, it is also of positive significance in helping to form a more friendly, smarter and safer digital financial service.
It is reported that since 2010, the Blue Bridge Cup competition has been developing for more than ten years, attracting over 1,400 colleges and universities to participate, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Sichuan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, East China Normal University, South China University of Technology and other well-known institutions. Meanwhile, with the total number of participants exceeding 400,000 people, the competition becomes a leading national IT discipline event in the domestic scale.
Our university always attaches great importance to the cultivation and training of talents’ innovative consciousness and quality, as well as the enhancement of students’ theoretical and practical skills in finance. In that way, the instructors shall combine the teaching work with the competition effectively to achieve the purpose of promoting teaching, research, learning and reform with the competition.
(Translator: Zheng Yang)