2. The National Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students was founded in 1992 and held once a year. It has become the largest basic subject competition in domestic universities and the largest mathematical modeling competition in the world. In 20 18, 1449 colleges/campuses and 42 128 teams (38,573 undergraduate teams and 3,555 junior college teams) from 34 provinces/cities/regions (including Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province) and the United States and Singapore signed up for the competition.