The title "Challenge Cup" is a national extracurricular academic and scientific works competition for college students, which is sponsored by the Communist Youth League Central Committee and the National Federation of China Association for Science and Technology.

The Challenge Cup is a guiding, demonstrative and mass national competition jointly sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, National Federation of Students and local provincial governments, undertaken by famous domestic universities and co-sponsored by news media.