On April 8, 2018, CQU delegation made up of several postgraduates of the School of Automotive Engineering of Chongqing University, including Zhang Haifeng, Zhang Dongcai (supervisor: Yang Yalian), and Zhong Kexue (supervisor: Wang Guangjian) wins the national third prize in the Second Aliyun API Innovation Competition. Nearly 400 delegations have participated in the competition and CQU delegation is the only university delegation that has won a prize (the other prize winners are all corporation delegations).

Aliyun API Application Innovation Competition is a competition for API developers based on API economic concept. The competition topic scenarios include Serverless, API practice, video, Internet of Things, AI, and enterprise services. Competitors are also allowed to propose their own topics. The competitors are expected to cascade product API and API services according to the topic requirements or their own proposition, and make innovation of existing applications or create new ones.

CQU delegation has chosen “shared parking” as the competition topic. As the number of cars is on the constant rise nowadays and there is an increasing market vacancy of parking space, this topic answers precisely to the market demand, responds to the national policy, and fits the trend of the era. In addition, it provides a very clear future development and innovation direction for related programs of the School of Automobile   Engineering.