The National Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students (hereinafter referred to as the Competition) is a mass scientific and technological activity jointly sponsored by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education and the China Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Its purpose is to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning mathematics, improve their comprehensive ability to use computer technology to build mathematical models and solve practical problems, encourage students to actively participate in extracurricular scientific and technological activities, broaden their knowledge, cultivate innovative spirit and cooperative consciousness, and promote the reform of college mathematics teaching system, teaching content and teaching methods.

It must be a science and technology competition, because there are many disciplines involved in mathematical modeling, and almost every discipline is involved. It's not just a subject. Mathematical modeling is mainly used to solve practical problems, as can be seen from the competition topics over the years, in mathematics, medicine, agriculture, physics, chemistry and so on.