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The Ninth Army-Wide Military Modeling Competition Results Exchange Conference Held

第九届全军军事建模竞赛成果交流会举行

PLA Daily (解放军报) 25 May 2026

Summary

The Ninth Army-Wide Military Modeling Competition Results Exchange Conference convened recently in Nanjing, drawing more than 140 representatives from CMC organs, theater commands, and services; it was hosted by the Military Degree and Graduate Education Development Center and co-organized by NUDT's College of Systems Engineering and Army Engineering University. The conference documents a sustained institutional mechanism—now eight years old—for routing quantitative modeling talent directly toward operational problems sourced from frontline units, with 16 research topics funded under 14th Five-Year Plan projects and intelligentized decision-making systems among the outputs already fielded in units. The competition's explicit pipeline from graduate-level mathematical and operations-research training into exercise support and combat-readiness tasks confirms that the PLA is using competitive academic formats as a structured channel for translating OR and AI-adjacent methods into deployable military tools, not merely as a talent-identification exercise.

Translation

Sharing Combat-Research Experience, Exploring Talent-Development Pathways, Jointly Promoting Results Transformation — The Ninth Army-Wide Military Modeling Competition Results Exchange Conference Held

PLA Daily report by Liu Weizhou and Shao Xinhong: Recently, the Ninth Army-Wide Military Modeling Competition Results Exchange Conference was held in Nanjing. More than 140 representatives from relevant departments of the Central Military Commission organs, the theater commands, and the services and arms gathered to share combat-research experience, explore talent-development pathways, and jointly promote results transformation. The conference was hosted by the Military Degree and Graduate Education Development Center and co-organized by the College of Systems Engineering of the National University of Defense Technology and the Army Engineering University.

At the exchange conference, participating representatives conducted in-depth discussions on competition results and reached two points of consensus: First, emphasize the combat-oriented direction (突出实战导向). All competition topics originated from frontline units, focusing on bottleneck problems constraining combat capability generation and urgent combat-readiness and warfighting problems awaiting resolution; all outstanding results submitted for evaluation were tested and applied at the submitting units and carry important real-combat value. Second, promote results transformation. The competition organizing committee, relying on the 14th Five-Year Plan projects, approved funding for 16 research topics, helping a number of results—including intelligentized decision-making systems (智能化决策系统)—achieve transformation and implementation in units, effectively supporting exercises and training, combat-readiness training, and major military tasks.

It is reported that the Army-Wide Military Modeling Competition aims to solve practical military problems by integrating mathematical deduction, algorithm design, operations research optimization, and simulation implementation. It adopts a format of "three-person teams competing under time-limited real-combat drills" to solve military problems through quantification, modeling, and proceduralization. Over eight years of development, the competition has refined and formed the concept of "letting warfare lead the competition, using the competition to serve warfare, and cultivating personnel for warfare" (以战领赛、以赛谋战、为战育人), and has cumulatively mobilized collective expertise to tackle dozens of difficult and key topics in the areas of combat, construction, and readiness (战建备), becoming an important brand in combat-oriented talent cultivation in military education.

Original Chinese

分享研战经验探索育人路径共促成果转化第九届全军军事建模竞赛成果交流会举行解放军报讯刘维洲、邵鑫鸿报道：近日，第九届全军军事建模竞赛成果交流会在南京举行。来自军委机关有关部门、各战区和军兵种部队的140余名代表齐聚一堂，分享研战经验、探索育人路径、共促成果转化。会议由军队学位与研究生教育发展中心主办、国防科技大学系统工程学院和陆军工程大学协办。交流会上，与会代表围绕竞赛成果展开深入研讨，形成两点共识：一是突出实战导向。竞赛题目全部源自部队一线，聚焦制约战斗力生成的瓶颈问题、亟待破解的备战打仗难题；参评的优秀成果均在提出单位检验应用，具有重要实战价值。二是促进转化成果。竞赛组委会依托“十四五”规划项目，立项资助16个课题研究，助力智能化决策系统等一批成果在部队转化落地，有效支撑演习演训、备战训练和重大军事任务。据悉，全军军事建模竞赛以解决实际军事问题为目标，融合数学推演、算法设计、运筹优化与仿真实现，采取“三人组队参赛、限时实战演练”方式，对军事问题进行定量化、模型化、程序化解题。历经8年发展，竞赛凝练形成“以战领赛、以赛谋战、为战育人”理念，累计围绕数十个战建备重难点课题集智攻关，成为军事教育实战化育人的重要品牌。