The First National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of P.R.C and People’s Government of Guangdong Province, was held in Foshan, Guangdong.The competition involved more than 5000 team projects and 24000 participants, and finally about 1400 team projects reached the national final. The outstanding performance of “AI Highway Guard--- Whole-space Intelligent Perception and Intelligent Diagnosis System for Urban Highway Diseases” brought the ZZU team the first place and the national gold prize. The team under the guidance of Prof. Fang Hongyuan, was composed of 10 postdoctoral team members including Wang Niannian, all of whom are from The School of Hydraulic Science and Engineering, ZZU.