Please help me systematically introduce the Spring Welcome Cup and Hope Cup.

"Spring Cup" started at 1984. The first Cup was hosted by the Basic Education Research Office of Beijing Education Bureau, co-organized by Beijing Mathematics Association, and undertaken by primary and secondary school mathematics teaching newspapers. There were about 200 participants in that year. Since then, the Spring Cup has been held once a year.

With the growing popularity of the Cup, more and more people took part in the "Spring Cup". By the 1990s, the winners of the Cup have attracted the attention of key middle schools.

From 65438 to 0998, Beijing began to implement "computer allocation", that is, admission to the nearest school. Without exams, the school lacks hard targets for enrollment, and the "Spring Cup" just makes up for this vacancy. Many schools began to take the award of "Spring Cup" as one of the main indicators for selecting outstanding students when enrolling students. With more and more people participating in the cup, the prize of "Spring Cup" in middle schools is also rising. Students who won the third prize in the cup in previous years can successfully enter key middle schools. In the past two years, it seems that only students who have won the first prize can be admitted to key middle schools with confidence.

In 200 1 year, the "spring cup" math competition was renamed as "spring cup math science popularization day" In 2002, the "Spring Cup" added a group award, and in 2003 added a participation award. These changes greatly increased the award-winning area of "Spring Cup", reaching 90% in 2003. However, due to the addition of group awards, the level of winners of the "Spring Cup" is uneven.

With the development of the cup, the "Spring Cup" is more and more linked with further education, and bears a "utilitarian burden" that should not be borne by the cup. In order to weaken this function of "Spring Cup", on June 5, 2004, the organizer decided that the cup would only be named without awarding prizes (this newspaper published "Elegy of Spring Cup" on February 5, 2004).

In 2005, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission was no longer the organizer of the "Spring Cup", and the cup began to become a folk competition. However, due to the failure of the organizer of the Cup to obtain the approval of the Municipal Education Commission, the tournament was suspended on June 5438+1October 4, 2005 (two days after the preliminary round of the Cup).

This invitational tournament has been held for more than ten times since 1990. 10 For many years, the organizers have insisted that the contest is open to most schools and students. Every link from proposition, award to organization revolves around one purpose: to stimulate middle school students' interest in learning, cultivate their self-confidence and constantly improve their ability and quality. This activity only involves Grade One, Grade Two, Grade One and Grade Two, not Grade Three and Grade Three. It is not repeated with the Olympic Games, linked with the senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, and does not increase the burden on teachers and students, so it is welcomed by teachers and students.

The competition was affirmed by the former State Education Commission and included in the list of national competitions approved by the former State Education Commission. At the same time, more and more mathematicians and mathematicians give enthusiastic care and support to the invitational tournament. By the tenth session, there were more than 500 participating cities and the total number of students reached 5.98 million. "Hope Cup" national mathematics invitational tournament has become one of the largest and most influential extracurricular activities among middle school students.

According to reports, the competition is divided into two sessions. The preliminary examination (conducted in March every year) is organized by all localities (provinces, cities, counties, [districts] and schools) and conducted at the same time in all participating schools in the country. Each test point is graded and graded according to the grading standard issued by the proposition Committee, and the players who take part in the second test are selected according to the proportion of one seventh. The second test (conducted in May every year) is organized by the local branch of the Editorial Committee of Mathematics and Physics, or by the teaching and research offices or education colleges, teaching institutes and teachers' further education schools in various cities. After the examination, the examination papers will be sealed in each test center, sent to the organizing committee after registration, and marked by the proposition committee, from which the first, second and third prizes will be awarded according to the results, and gold, silver and bronze prizes and award certificates will be awarded respectively. The organizing committee will award the "Hope Cup" prize for organizing the mathematics invitational tournament to the regions or schools that have done a good job in organizing it.

The Japanese Mathematical Olympic Committee is very concerned about this competition. Mr. Wakayama Rongji, Director of the Committee Affairs Bureau, made a special trip to China to discuss the exhibition with the organizing committee of the invitational tournament. Since 1996, some Japanese middle school students have been organized to participate in the competition for three consecutive years, which is the first time for chinese social organizations to hold similar competitions abroad. In recent years, relevant organizations in the United States and Germany have also contacted and cooperated with the Organizing Committee.