On July 29th, the 2024 National College Student Surveying Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, listed in the "2023 National College Student Competition Analysis Report," was held at Western Yunnan University of Applied Sciences. This event, organized by the Education Committee of the Chinese Society for Surveying and Mapping, attracted over 360 universities and nearly 8,000 students, marking the largest competition in its history. NEFU students achieved outstanding results, winning five grand prizes, eight first prizes, and 4 second prizes, setting a new record for NEFU in this competition.

The competition featured online participation by contestants and offline evaluations by judges. It included three main categories: the Surveying Skills Competition, the Development and Design Competition, and the Scientific Paper Competition. The Surveying Skills Competition saw participation from 5,530 teams across various events, including 1,720 teams in Virtual Simulation Digital Mapping, 744 teams in Surveying Program Design, 1,596 teams in UAV Aerial Survey Virtual Simulation, and 1,470 teams in Airborne LiDAR Virtual Simulation. The Civil and Transportation Engineering School at NEFU organized the participation of students in all categories of the Surveying Skills Competition.

Surveying skills encompass a wide range of knowledge, including geographic information, spatial data, and map-making. To ensure the success of our students in this competition, the NEFU School of Civil and Transportation Engineering organized the 2024 Heilongjiang Province College Student Surveying Discipline Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. During the summer, all the Surveying Teaching and Research Department faculty members dedicated their time to training and guiding the participating teams, laying a solid foundation for their outstanding performance. The Civil and Transportation Engineering School is committed to "enhancing teaching through competition, promoting learning through competition, and integrating competition with education." The school will continue exploring a teaching model emphasizing "innovation in learning, practice in innovation, and growth through practice." The focus will remain on cultivating students' engineering practice and innovation abilities, continuously improving the effectiveness of education.