On 20 October, the Artificial Intelligence Host Arena of the 2025 Youth Science and Technology Innovation “Open Bidding for Selecting the Best Candidates” Competition successfully concluded. A SBC student team won the National First Prize in this category, standing out among teams from top universities with their independently developed project, “Boring Panel: An AI-powered Ops Management Tool for the Kylin OS”.
The Artificial Intelligence Host Arena was held in Xuhui District, Shanghai from 18 to 20 October. This highly competitive arena saw participation from 39 issuing organisations, which posted a total of 30 challenge topics—the highest number nationwide. It attracted 2,230 teams from 506 universities across China, involving over 13,000 young students. Since 2021, the "Open Bidding for Selecting the Best Candidates" was formated into the Challenge Cup National Undergraduate Academic and Technological Works Competition. In this format, enterprises and research institutions set real-world challenges for young talents to solve. This year, the initiative was elevated to the China Youth Science and Technology Innovation "Open Bidding for Selecting the Best Candidates" Arena, placing greater emphasis on technological innovation and aligning closely with industrial frontiers.
The award-winning project "Boring Panel" is an AI-powered operations management tool specifically designed for the domestic Kylin OS. It directly addresses the efficiency challenges and technical barriers faced in maintaining localised information systems by innovatively integrating AI technology into daily operational scenarios. The team independently developed the GraphACE framework for AI self-learning and memory, and built BoringCopilot—a general-purpose task-oriented AI—to achieve highly autonomous operational capabilities and adaptability to complex production environments. They also refined root-cause analysis and failure-handling workflows to enhance logical processing. The final product includes core functions such as intelligent process monitoring, automated diagnosis of system performance bottlenecks, security threat warnings, and one-click fault remediation, aiming to strengthen the overall market competitiveness of domestic systems.
As explained by ZHANG Renhong, the project lead: "The name 'Boring' reflects our design philosophy—to fully liberate system administrators from repetitive and mundane maintenance tasks, enabling them to focus on more valuable creative work. Our tool is deeply optimised for the Kylin OS, not only improving system stability and security but also contributing our youthful energy to advancing the ecosystem of domestic foundational software."
Winning the National First Prize represents another significant achievement in USST’s and SBC’s ongoing efforts to deepen innovation and entrepreneurship education reform and advance excellence in talent development. SBC remains committed to providing students with international academic resources and localised practical platforms, encouraging them to address national needs and engage in technological innovation. Moving forward, the College will continue to uphold the principle of "promoting teaching, learning, and innovation through competition", constantly refining its innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem to inspire more SBC students to contribute their youthful wisdom and strength to the nation’s modernisation journey.
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