Ministry of Education: Will continue to further promote the Artificial Intelligence Empowerment Education Action Plan and issue relevant policy documents next year

The Zhitong Finance App learned that on December 30, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the progress and results of the digitization of education during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period. Zhou Dawang, director of the Department of Science, Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, said at a press conference that the Ministry of Education announced at the “March 28” event last year the launch of an artificial intelligence enabling education campaign to explore effective paths for artificial intelligence education. This year, the Ministry of Education launched the implementation of Action 2.0 of the National Education Digitalization Strategy, taking intelligence as one of the strategic directions, deepening and promoting the all-round application of artificial intelligence in the field of education, and phased progress has been made. In the next step, the Ministry of Education will continue to further promote artificial intelligence to empower education. It plans to issue relevant policy documents next year, systematically deploy and promote artificial intelligence education and application, and build a future-oriented education system. According to the characteristics of different education stages, AI general education is promoted by classification, and high-quality talents competent for the intelligent era are cultivated.

The transcript of the press conference is as follows:

The Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the progress and results of the digitization of education during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period

Chen Xing:

Good morning to all our fellow journalists. Welcome to the Ministry of Education's press conference. This is also the last press conference in 2025. Last Friday, the top ten education news stories for 2025 were revealed, summarizing the major educational events throughout the year in a panoramic manner. Everyone also paid attention to the selection of the “White Paper on Smart Education in China” released. This is also a highlight and microcosm of the progress and results of the digitization of education this year.

Chen Xing:

This year marks the end of the “14th Five-Year Plan”. As an important breakthrough, the digitalization of education has played a role in opening up a new track for education development and shaping new advantages in education development. Today's press conference will focus on the main progress and results of this work during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, especially since the implementation of the Education Digitalization Strategy.

The guests attending today's press conference were: Director Zhou Dawang of the Department of Science, Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education; Yang Fei, Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Education; Feng Wei, Deputy Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education; Vice President Xia Qunke of Zhejiang University; Professor Yang Zongkai, Director of the Education Digitization Expert Advisory Committee; and Ma Zizhong, President of Jinji Central School, Litong District, Wuzhong City, Ningxia.

Chen Xing:

Before the guest presentation, I will first give a brief presentation on the upgrade and “update” of the National Smart Education Platform. The resources and service system of the National Smart Education Platform continues to be improved. Recently, preschool education sections and postgraduate education sections have been added, achieving full coverage of the clients served by the national platform. At the same time, the big data center as the “data base” of national education and the intelligent operation center of the national platform were officially launched, enabling the sharing and integration of education data and the intelligent upgrading of the national platform, and promoting the basic service capabilities of digital education to a new stage of intelligence.

Chen Xing:

Next, I would like to first ask Director Yang Fei to introduce the overall situation of digital education development during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, especially since the launch of the National Education Digitization Strategy.

Yang Fei:

Good morning to all media friends! I am very happy to attend today's press conference. Thank you to everyone and all sectors of society for their long-term concern and support for education, especially the digitization of education.

Education is the foundation for building a strong nation and reviving the nation. Currently, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is rapidly evolving, and digital education has become the wave of education development in the world today. China is an educational powerhouse, and it is even more important to build an educational power. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the digitization of education is an important breakthrough for China to open up a new track for education development and shape new advantages in education development. For the first time, the report of the 20th National Congress of the Party included the promotion of digitization of education in the report of the Party Congress, and proposed promoting the digitization of education and building a learning society and a large learning country where all people learn for life. The outline of the plan for building a strong educational nation makes specific arrangements for implementing the national education digitization strategy.

Yang Fei:

Since the “14th Five-Year Plan”, the Ministry of Education has resolutely implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, accurately recognized change, responded scientifically, and actively sought change, initiated and implemented the national education digitization strategy, adhering to the concept of integration, intelligence, and internationalization, with building a strong and effective national smart education public service platform as the core, and organizing the large-scale and normalized application of digital education. China's digital education has moved from “quantitative expansion” to a “qualitative leap forward”, and has become an important support for the construction of a strong educational nation, especially in high quality New improvements have been achieved in areas such as balance, lifelong learning, public service, education governance, and international influence.

Yang Fei:

The first is to build the world's largest and highest quality education resource center, and achieve a new level of quality balance. The National Smart Education Public Service Platform has gathered more than 130,000 high-quality resources for primary and secondary schools, more than 12,500 high-quality vocational education courses, and 145,000 high-quality higher education courses to form an educational resource center covering the entire process from preschool education to postgraduate education, including moral, intellectual, physical, and beauty labor. The total number of users has exceeded 178 million, covering more than 200 countries and regions, with an average daily visit volume of 52 million, and total visits exceeding 72.6 billion. At this moment, various applications such as double teacher courses, exclusive delivery classes, and famous teacher classes on the platform are being widely carried out in various places. The “MOOC West Tour” is crossing mountains and seas with high-quality resources. Whether it is on the shores of the South China Sea or the roof of the world, it can share high-quality education resources through the national platform, which has strongly promoted the balance of high-quality resources.

Yang Fei:

The national platform also integrates more than 60 application tools to provide teachers and students with support for the main application scenarios of education and teaching, such as student learning, teacher preparation, question-and-answer guidance, after-school services, and home-school collaboration, for free use by teachers and students. Supported by rich resources and tools, advanced and efficient teaching models such as flipped classrooms, exploratory learning, and project-based learning have been freed from the constraints of traditional conditions and can be implemented in all aspects, effectively supporting the overall improvement of teaching quality. The national platform has also set up more than 500,000 teacher teaching and research groups. More than 64 million teachers have used the platform to prepare and teach, and more than 90 million teachers have been trained through the platform, greatly improving teachers' digital literacy and professional ability.

Yang Fei:

The second is to build a lifelong learning center to serve learners of all ages, and achieve new improvements in the effectiveness of building a digitally empowered learning society. The National Lifelong Education Smart Education Platform brings together 38 organizations with more than 8,000 courses. Precisely help employment groups improve their abilities. Focus on graduates and social learners, set up columns on workplace skills, continuing education, etc., launch the “Double Thousand” program to improve employability, and launch more than 2,600 “micro majors” and more than 1,400 vocational ability training courses to promote high-quality and full employment. Carefully help the elderly enjoy life at the silver age, and set up columns such as silver age schools and cultural literacy to enrich learning resources for the elderly. Academician Zhong Nanshan's Geriatric Health Course was launched in March of this year. The number of viewers surpassed 12 million on the same day and was widely welcomed. Precisely helps improve the intellectual literacy of the nation. Sections such as scientific literacy and hobbies are set up, and classes such as legal science popularization and family education are provided to meet learners' personalized learning needs. At the same time, we are also innovating the learning achievement certification conversion mechanism, establishing a national credit bank for vocational education, guiding the construction of 25 provincial lifelong education credit banks, and exploring mutual recognition of regional credits in the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao regions to further improve the credit banking system and serve the construction of a learning society.

Yang Fei:

Third, an education public service center covering major education service matters has been built, and the level of education government services has been upgraded. The National Platform Public Service Hall brought together 51 government services in 8 categories, including employment, examinations, and study abroad, serving 140 million people. Education government service matters are continuously being expanded and improved. We are steadily promoting “doing one thing efficiently”. The platform provides various services such as student registration inquiries, certificate checks, academic degree certification, etc., and connects to 32 provincial government service platforms. Relying on the “one-stop acceptance and one-network access” method, service efficiency continues to improve, so that “data runs more and people run less errands”. The public's sense of attainment and satisfaction continues to increase. The Ministry of Education launched a national student financial aid management information system to provide one-stop government services such as financial aid policy inquiries and national scholarship certificate checks, making public services more convenient. Qinghai, Xining and other places have piloted compulsory education enrollment processing systems. Nearly 50% of enrolments have achieved “zero material” applications. The processing time has been drastically reduced, significantly reducing the burden on parents, and making the public really feel the efficiency and convenience of digitalization.

Yang Fei:

Fourth, integrate the construction of a vertical and horizontal national education big data center to achieve a new level of modernization of education governance. As you can see from the video just released, data integration is currently progressing at an accelerated pace. The National Education Data Center is already interconnected with 32 provincial education departments and more than 1,000 colleges and universities, forming a central data sharing and exchange center in the field of education. We promote the quality and efficiency of the education business through digital empowerment. Taking education supervision work as an example, we are promoting the access of more than 1,300 colleges and universities to the National Education Big Data Center to dynamically carry out quality monitoring and early warning through various evaluation core monitoring indicators to accurately support the optimization of resource allocation. We promote more accurate education services through data sharing. Taking Wuhan University of Technology as an example, a “heart-warming operation” was carried out by connecting data from the Ministry of Education and three other ministries and commissions to construct a model for identifying and recommending students with financial difficulties, and a copy of the grant was “quietly” distributed to student accounts, so that the accuracy of the data was transformed into the temperature of education. We are driving the continuous improvement of our governance capabilities through data. Data collection forms a “digital map of education” to scientifically analyze and forecast the school-age population, degree resources, talent supply and demand, etc., and comprehensively raise the level of refined management and scientific decision-making.

Yang Fei:

Fifth, the first white paper on smart education was released, and the international influence of digital education in China increased. The World Digital Education Conference was successfully held for 3 consecutive years. More than 400 foreign guests from 84 countries and regions around the world attended this year's conference. The “White Paper on Smart Education in China” was released for the first time in the world, providing Chinese ideas and Chinese solutions for the development of global digital education. The international version of the China Smart Education Platform provides nearly 900 multi-lingual courses to the world. The “Digital Luban Workshop” serves 31 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the US, shares China's high-quality digital education resources with global learners, and builds a bridge for multicultural exchanges and mutual appreciation. The World Digital Education Alliance was established to attract 115 organizations from 43 countries and regions to join, establish the “Frontiers of Digital Education” journal, and publish the Global Digital Education Development Index. China became one of the leading countries of the United Nations Children's Fund's “Public Digital Learning Gateway Project”. The “National Smart Education Public Service Platform” project won the highest award for education informatization in the United Nations system. Recently, Thailand, Cuba, Italy and other countries have visited to exchange experiences in the digital development of international education, and the international influence of digital education in China has increased significantly. In addition, we are also continuously improving the digital literacy of teachers and students through the implementation of artificial intelligence to empower education, help integrate artificial intelligence into all elements of education and teaching, and serve large-scale individualized teaching. Director Dawang will also give you a detailed introduction later.

Yang Fei:

In the next step, the Ministry of Education will further promote the National Education Digitalization Strategy Action 2.0, focus on improving the level of public service and comprehensive management capabilities in digital education, promote a systematic leap from resource gathering to public services to modernizing governance capabilities, and comprehensively empower the high-quality development of education through digitization of education.

I'll just introduce these, thank you all.

Chen Xing:

Thank you, Director Yang Fei. Next, I would like Director Zhou Dawong to introduce the situation related to artificial intelligence education and application.

Zhou Dawang:

Good morning to all media reporters. Just now, Deputy Director Yang Fei gave a detailed overview of the digitalization of education during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period. Let me now introduce the Ministry of Education's promotion of artificial intelligence education and application.

At the “March 28” event last year, the Ministry of Education announced the launch of an artificial intelligence enabling education campaign to explore effective paths for artificial intelligence education. This year, the Ministry of Education launched the implementation of Action 2.0 of the National Education Digitalization Strategy, taking intelligence as one of the strategic directions, deepening and promoting the all-round application of artificial intelligence in the field of education, and phased progress has been made. There are five main aspects:

Zhou Dawang:

The first is to strengthen top-level design and strengthen policy guidance. The “White Paper on Smart Education in China” was released at the 2025 World Digital Education Conference, which systematically interprets China's effective experience and puts forward the “Four Futures” concept for future teachers, future classrooms, future schools, and future learning centers. Various regulatory documents such as the “Guide to Artificial Intelligence General Education in Primary and Secondary Schools”, “Guidelines for the Use of Formal Artificial Intelligence for Primary and Secondary School Students”, “Guidelines for the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Colleges and Universities”, and “Guidelines for the Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Teachers” have been issued to guide the application of artificial intelligence in scientific organizations at all levels, promote the orderly and healthy development of artificial intelligence empowered education through standardized application, and actively embrace the advent of the intelligent era.

Zhou Dawang:

The second is to carry out education and training to improve intellectual literacy. By organizing general education for the entire school sector and society, artificial intelligence will become a public course for teachers and students and a basic course for everyone. Minister Huai Jinpeng personally taught AI courses to principals and college counselors from all over the country, covering more than 400,000 people through a combination of online and offline methods. Relying on the national smart education public service platform, it has brought together more than 1,000 high-quality artificial intelligence courses in basic education, vocational education, higher education, and lifelong education to meet the learning needs of people in different school groups. University faculty and staff were organized to participate in online training to empower higher education talents with artificial intelligence, covering 500,000 teachers and students from more than 2,000 colleges and universities across the country. Undergraduate graduates from ordinary colleges and universities were organized to participate in online training on comprehensive application capabilities of artificial intelligence. The number of students participating in the training reached 1.31 million. At the same time, many colleges and universities have carried out extensive work on artificial intelligence as an important part of general education. For example, starting this year, Fudan University has achieved AI courses covering all undergraduate students, integrating AI into all first-level disciplines, and AI literacy requirements covering all majors, providing useful experiences for cultivating future talents for the intelligent era.

Zhou Dawang:

The third is to strengthen application supply and promote deep integration. With the national intelligent education platform as an important position, we have launched a rich variety of artificial intelligence applications. The “AI Proving Ground” was launched on the national platform portal, bringing together 14 AI intelligent tools. Many schools in many places have organized teacher training using relevant intelligent tools, which have been well received. Promote the intelligent transformation of the national platform, launch the “Nurture a Little Seedling” smart device, and assist primary and secondary school teachers and students to efficiently obtain platform resources. The Thinking and Politics Education Smart System has been launched, covering 7 major application scenarios, including new student enrollment and party group building, and has been promoted and tested in some colleges and universities. The “Science Exchange” agent was released on the scientific and technological achievements trading platform of Chinese universities to achieve intelligent sensing of enterprise needs and intelligent matching of transformation results. Organize demonstration actions for the application of large models for education, and build 23 major models for education and subcategory models for 13 subject areas. We are happy to see that a number of schools are organizing to promote the large-scale application of artificial intelligence in the main battlefields of the classroom. For example, Tsinghua University has completed AI construction for 402 courses. The system promotes the application of course AI assistants to course activities and establishes a new model of “teacher-machine-student” ternary teaching.

Zhou Dawang:

Fourth, innovate promotion mechanisms to encourage practical exploration. Establish an artificial intelligence open alliance to integrate high-level universities and leading science and technology enterprises, promote the implementation of intelligent technology in the field of education, deepen international exchanges and cooperation, and expand the influence of artificial intelligence education in China. Launch a pilot AI education initiative, select 7 provinces in the eastern region, 20 prefectures and cities, and 18 universities in the central and western regions to promote artificial intelligence teaching applications, curriculum tool development, and security system construction in an integrated manner, and systematically promote artificial intelligence to transform student learning, teacher teaching, school governance, and scientific research. Set up 509 artificial intelligence education base schools across the country to test first, explore new ideas and practices in artificial intelligence education, and form excellent cases and advanced experiences that can be promoted. An “Artificial Intelligence +” circuit was added to the China International University Student Innovation Competition to establish an artificial intelligence crowd innovation mechanism. According to the deployment of the National Development and Reform Commission, an artificial intelligence industry application pilot base was laid out to create a number of high-quality educational models, materials, and tools, cultivate a diverse innovation ecosystem, and accelerate the deep and large-scale application of intelligent technology in the field of education.

Zhou Dawang:

The fifth is to strengthen safety and security to ensure intelligence and goodness. Coordinate development and security, integrate artificial intelligence security into the overall education security pattern, and ensure technical security, data security, content security, algorithm security, and ethical security in an integrated manner. Continue to carry out educational social practices under artificial intelligence conditions. Through long-term follow-up research at the level of 100,000 people, the impact of intelligent technology on traditional teaching is systematically and scientifically evaluated to provide empirical support for handling the relationship between artificial intelligence and education. Research and formulate safety assessment indicators for artificial intelligence applications, and organize algorithm filing and security assessments for large artificial intelligence models and tools launched on national platforms to ensure application compliance, safety and stability. Strictly follow the requirements of national laws and regulations, organize and carry out work such as filing large models of artificial intelligence, and standardize the management and application of AI agents.

Zhou Dawang:

In the next step, the Ministry of Education will continue to further promote artificial intelligence to empower education. It plans to issue relevant policy documents next year, systematically deploy and promote artificial intelligence education and application, and build a future-oriented education system. According to the characteristics of different education stages, AI general education is promoted by classification, and high-quality talents competent for the intelligent era are cultivated.

I'll just report these, thank you.

Chen Xing:

Thank you, Director Zhou. Next, I would like to ask Director Feng Wei to introduce the progress and results of the digitalization of education during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period in promoting education reform and talent training in Guangdong.

Feng Wei:

Thank you to the host. Dear reporters and friends, during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, Guangdong anchored high-quality development goals. The education system throughout the province resolutely implemented the national education digitization strategy, used digitalization as an endogenous variable driving systemic changes in education, and closely connected with the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and major regional strategies such as the “100 Counties, Thousand Towns, and Ten Thousand Villages High Quality Development Project”. Over the past five years, the digitization of education has profoundly reshaped the education ecosystem in Guangdong, providing solid talent and intellectual support for regional economic and social development. It is mainly reflected in changes and results in three areas:

Feng Wei:

The first aspect is to focus on “expanding excellence and improving quality” to consolidate the foundation of educational equity with a new digital foundation.

Guangdong is using the pilot global application of the National Smart Education Public Service Platform as a starting point to systematically solve the problem of uneven education development.

The first is to establish a resource circulation system covering the entire region. We have built a smart education service system with five levels of “national, provincial, city, county, and school”, taking the lead in realizing the “four connections” of users, resources, applications, and data between provincial platforms and national platforms. The innovation brought 4,900 quality courses on the national platform to the TV screen, covering about 23 million families, so that teachers and students from remote areas and islands can break through internet restrictions, and can directly access famous teachers' classrooms at home through TV in the living room, unblock the “last mile” of access to quality education resources, and reach the whole province fairly.

Feng Wei:

The second is to significantly raise the level of quality and balanced development of education. In response to some shortcomings in eastern, western, and northern Guangdong, such as weak hardware, few high-quality resources, and insufficient digital literacy among teachers, the national platform has become a key support for improving the quality of teaching. The total number of visits to the Guangdong platform reached 8.581 billion, of which the eastern, western and northern regions of Guangdong accounted for more than 51%; teachers used teaching preparation tools reached 7.9 million, and teachers from the eastern, western and northern regions of Guangdong accounted for more than 76.44%. Access to resources is more balanced, and the national platform has become a “powerful tool” for daily teaching. Through applied training, double teacher classrooms, and communities of practice, etc., high-quality courses can be normalized to rural areas and weak schools. Rural teachers have transformed from “unwilling to use and unable to use” to “active use and good at using”, and the gap between urban and rural areas continues to narrow.

Feng Wei:

The second aspect is to focus on “integrated innovation” and use a new paradigm of artificial intelligence to drive profound changes in talent cultivation.

Guangdong is actively transforming the advantages of the artificial intelligence industry into innovative advantages in education and promoting the transformation of talent training models.

First, basic education enables innovation in learning methods. By pioneering the publication of the provincial artificial intelligence literacy framework and curriculum outline, the “AI Education 211” policy system was formed, application guidelines for global scenarios were formulated, and a provincial AI education zone was launched. At the same time, linking national platforms to promote the transformation of the learning model to “independent inquiry”, and some vivid teaching practices such as “exploratory learning” and “interdisciplinary projects” have emerged, effectively enhancing students' ability to think and practice innovatively.

Feng Wei:

Second, vocational education and higher education deepen the integration of obstetrics and education. Vocational education majors accurately connect with 20 strategic industrial clusters across the province. Virtual simulation and other technologies incorporate real production scenarios into teaching, and 13 national and 84 provincial virtual simulation training bases have been built. Relying on the “Tianji Project” to promote the cross-integration of “AI+ disciplines”, our higher education has built 8 national and 3 provincial research platforms, covering fields such as intelligent manufacturing, and has completed the transformation of about 150 artificial intelligence achievements, forming a healthy ecosystem of mutual promotion between industry, education and research, and effectively cultivating scarce talents in emerging industries.

Feng Wei:

Third, serving the whole nation for lifelong learning has achieved remarkable results. Through digital transformation and system construction, Guangdong has built a five-level lifelong education service network covering provinces, cities, counties, towns and villages. Through the implementation of qualification framework standards, certification, accumulation and conversion of various learning outcomes are promoted, and bridges are built for talent growth. At present, Credit Bank has integrated more than 8,000 online courses, covered 129 colleges and universities across the province, established 1.53 million lifelong learning accounts, and stored 14.6 million learning results. An intelligent learning environment where “everyone can learn, learn everywhere, and learn from time to time” was initially formed, which strongly supports the construction of a learning society.

Feng Wei:

The third aspect is to focus on “collaboration and symbiosis” to jointly build a new smart education ecosystem in the Greater Bay Area through digital links.

Guangdong uses the digitization of education to promote the integration of education rules and resource sharing between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and has built a normalized exchange platform through a series of initiatives such as creating the “Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Same Class” joint teaching and research activities and co-hosting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Student Information Technology Innovation Competition. Teachers and students from the three regions were able to carry out substantial cooperation in curriculum co-construction, teacher training, etc. through the “Joint Study of a Course in the Cloud and Co-Creation of a Project Online” to promote educational collaboration in the Greater Bay Area from the exchange of ideas to deep integration and practice.

Facing the “15th Five-Year Plan”, Guangdong will continue to advance the leap from “integrated application” to “smart leadership” with the national smart education platform as the core hub and artificial intelligence to fully empower education and teaching, and strive to build a fairer, higher quality, and modern education system that better supports the high-quality development of Guangdong.

Thank you all.

Chen Xing:

Thank you, Director Feng. Next, I would like to ask President Xia Qunke to introduce Zhejiang University's practices and services for the digital economy of Zhejiang University in digitally empowering talent training and education transformation.

Xia Quncae:

Dear media friends, hello everyone. Since the Ministry of Education implemented the national education digitization strategy, Zhejiang University has implemented the central government's requirements, focusing on cultivating “people who can read” into “people who can create”, using “digital empowerment” and “AI transformation” as dual engines to comprehensively promote the digital transformation of education.

Xia Quncae:

First, establish a hierarchical classification AI talent training system to cultivate future innovative talents.

As early as 2019, the State Council approved Zhejiang University to establish the first interdisciplinary field of artificial intelligence in colleges and universities in the country to systematically establish an “artificial intelligence+” talent training system covering all stages of undergraduate, master's, and doctorate. The first is to actively lay out long-term training programs, successively build 11 comprehensive training programs, including Smart Ocean, establish new cutting-edge directions such as intelligent manufacturing, robotics, and smart optoelectronic chips, and actively apply to the Ministry of Education to add new majors related to digital empowerment such as intelligent engineering, creative design, and physical intelligence. The second is to publish a new generation of artificial intelligence general knowledge textbooks and establish 51 “artificial intelligence+X” textbooks. The “Foundations of Artificial Intelligence” series of textbooks and 27 “Artificial Intelligence+X” textbooks have been officially published. Among them, “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Models and Algorithms” was selected for the first prize of the 2nd National Outstanding Textbook Award. The third is to establish a hierarchical and classified artificial intelligence course system, set up 158 AI+X cross-courses in accordance with the AI “learning, use, creative care” concept, and establish 9 provincial “famous teacher courses” series of courses and 3 first-class courses. 15 courses were selected for the National Smart Higher Education Platform. Fourth, deepening the construction of “AI+X” micro-majors. Currently, 13 specialty micro-majors have been established, including “AI+X”, embodied intelligence, data science and big data technology. Jointly with the five schools in East China, we launched a micro-major joint construction campaign. In the fall semester of 2025, more than 600 students from the five East China schools studied together.

Xia Quncae:

Second, reshape the new paradigm of “teaching and learning” and promote educational transformation and in-depth development.

The school gradually implemented the Zhejiang University Artificial Intelligence Promotion Plan for Education and Teaching in accordance with the steps of “mastering knowledge, training ability, creative innovation, and advanced improvement”. Build a “crowdfunding intelligence, open and win-win” digital construction ecosystem. The school and enterprise jointly built the Qizhen Computing Power Center. The center is equipped with more than 1,500 GPU cards. To promote the construction of AI models, large-scale models have now been built in various fields such as artificial intelligence, mechanics, education, law, finance, and medicine. Among them, the two major models of “artificial intelligence” and “basic medicine” have been selected as national intelligent higher education platforms. The upgrade of Zhihai's next-generation artificial intelligence science and education platform, Zhihai-Mo, includes more than 300 standard courses and more than 2,000 data sets, and serves 150,000+ teachers and students in more than 1,000 schools. The Zhejiang University smart platform was launched, empowering more than 20,000 teachers and students to create more than 5,900 smart devices and open it to teachers and students from 1,064 colleges and universities across the country. An AI teaching assistant for 10 public basic courses has been built. Since it was launched for trial in October 2025, it has been used more than 70,000 times.

Xia Quncae:

Third, take root in the fertile soil of Zhejiang and use digital momentum to promote regional development.

The first is to strengthen the cultivation of digital talents. Zhejiang University has nearly 9,000 graduates every year. More than 50% of the graduates are rooted in Zhejiang to serve the province's high-quality economic development. The second is to deepen think tank research and policy services. The Digital Economy Research Center of Zhejiang University was established to establish a “government, industry, academia, research and application” collaborative innovation network. Driven by national key R&D plans, over the past five years, more than 10 consulting projects for enterprise digital transformation and upgrading have been completed, resulting in more than 20 consulting reports and 10 special reports summarizing Zhejiang's experience. The third is to promote innovation in the digital industry. Through the two-wheel drive of “fund setup+project investment”, it accurately supports the transformation of the results of projects related to the digital economy within the school. Gathering the strength of alumni, up to now, there are 168 listed companies in Zhejiang, with a total market capitalization of 2948.7 billion yuan. 115 are Zhejiang unicorns or quasi-unicorns, and 129 countries are specialized and new.

Dear media friends, Zhejiang University will continue to adhere to the concept of “student growth as the center”, deepen strategic actions to digitize education, and strive to contribute more to the construction of a strong country of education, science and technology, and talent.

Thank you all.

Chen Xing:

Thank you, Principal Xia. Next, I would like to ask Principal Ma Zizhong to introduce the situation of schools using the National Smart Education Platform to share high-quality resources and improve the quality of education and teaching.

Ma Zizhong:

Hello everyone. I am from Jinji Central School in Litong District, Wuzhong City, Ningxia. I am honored to represent a rural school in Northwest China that has taken the digital “express train” in the year of the end of the “14th Five-Year Plan” to introduce our practical exploration of relying on the national smart education platform for primary and secondary schools to promote high-quality resource sharing, classroom quality improvement, and individualized teaching.

Ma Zizhong:

Our school currently has 36 classes and 1881 students. In the past, we faced the reality that there was a structural shortage of teachers and insufficient supply in some subjects; the teaching model was relatively solidified, high-quality resources for teaching and research were limited; and the evaluation method was single, making it difficult to support the differentiated development of students. Since the launch of the National Education Digitalization Strategy Campaign, schools have closely grasped the opportunity of promoting and applying the national platform, and have gradually formed a rural education reform path of sharing high-quality resources, innovating teaching models, and improving evaluation systems in accordance with the principles of application as the guide and use to promote reform. Below, I'll focus on three aspects.

Ma Zizhong:

First, build and share to promote the flow and sharing of resources. Relying on the national platform, schools use “special delivery classrooms, famous teacher classrooms, and online classrooms at famous schools” as a starting point to form teaching and research communities with urban schools to achieve strong schools with weak schools and excellent teachers with new teachers, and promote the balanced development of urban and rural education in the region. Currently, community partner schools have applied more than 66,000 copies of accumulated cloud resources and 4,500 examples of quality resources, exchanged 640 lessons from famous teachers, 560 online courses from famous schools, and 860 online courses to small-scale schools. In the absence of sound, physical education, and aesthetic teachers, high-quality courses in music, sports, art, etc. are still offered to effectively make up for the shortcomings in teachers and curriculum resources. On the other hand, promote group course preparation in the cloud and establish an integrated “selection-use-evaluation-reform” mechanism to effectively solve the pain points of rural teachers' difficulties in preparing courses and lack of examples, and encourage newly recruited teachers in our school to independently reduce the classroom adaptation cycle from 2 years to 1 year on average.

Ma Zizhong:

Second, integrate and promote intellectual transformation in teaching and research. The school uses the national platform system hub to build a “1+N” platform application system and integrates application tools such as “smart classroom” and “smart student companion” to form a new model of school-based teaching.

In the course preparation stage, pre-study tests and academic situation prediction are carried out, and diagnosis is carried out first and then design; for example, in language teaching, teachers first push guidance plans, publish preview tasks, collect students' knowledge and feedback data in real time, and design key teaching difficulties and interactive aspects in a targeted manner. In the teaching phase, explore the integration of multiple scenarios of “double teacher classrooms” and smart classrooms such as digital resources to create a new form of classroom with multiple interactions and immediate testing and evaluation. For example, in math classes, students use the “Nine Chapter Math” tool to perform exercises and answers, which can diagnose academic conditions in real time, making it easy for teachers to adjust teaching; physical education classes use interactive rope skipping training resources to solve the difficulties of movement regulation and rhythm coordination that were previously impossible to teach, improve teaching standards, and solve the shortcomings of insufficient teachers.

Ma Zizhong:

In recent years, we have actively accumulated 184 smart teaching and research demonstration cases. According to the Department of Education's unified assessment, the digital literacy excellence rate of our teachers increased from 40.4% to 94.1%.

Ma Zizhong:

Third, evaluate numerically and intelligently to promote the implementation and effectiveness of teaching according to ability.

Relying on the platform, the school focuses on comprehensive quality evaluation reform and establishes an intelligent evaluation system. First, it was clear “what to evaluate.” Relying on national standards, the evaluation idea of “integration of five education+science and innovation” was proposed, and a “six-dimensional, three-layer” framework was established, and refined into 174 observation points. Second, “how to evaluate” has been resolved. Using the “accompanying data collection+intelligent analysis” method, multi-dimensional data boards for grades, classes, and individuals are constructed to achieve fine-grained evaluation. Third, “how to use” has been implemented. Establish a “collection-evaluation-diagnosis-push” mechanism to transform literacy into observable behavior to support accurate teachers' teaching, scientific decision-making in schools, and effective collaboration among parents. Since implementation, the student academic development excellence rate has increased by 33%, the rate of excellent physical health has increased by 24%, and the myopia rate has decreased by 5.3%.

Ma Zizhong:

Along the way, we have deeply felt that what the national platform gives rural schools is not only the “visibility” of high-quality resources, but also the “accessibility” of teaching according to ability. For rural schools, it's like a door through time and space: push open the door and you can reach a new world of wider and better education.

In the future, schools will continue to make deep use of national platforms, actively build and share school-based digital classrooms rich in local temperature, and grow collaboratively with more rural schools; actively explore the integrated application of artificial intelligence and platform resources; and continue to promote the high-quality balance of rural education, so that every rural child can have a fairer and higher quality education.

Thank you all.

Chen Xing:

Thank you, Principal Ma. Finally, we asked Professor Yang Zongkai to make an expert review on the digitization of education during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period.

Yang Zongkai:

Good morning to all media friends! During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, especially since the country implemented the digital strategy in 2022, the digital development of education in China has moved from single-point exploration and partial application to a “smart education” stage of system integration and comprehensive deepening. It is mainly reflected in the following four aspects:

Yang Zongkai:

The first is to push the supply model for high-quality resources from local scarcity to global sharing. In 2022, the Ministry of Education officially launched the National Smart Education Public Service Platform. Top schools, authorities, and education expert teams jointly develop high-quality education resources and provide them free of charge to teachers, students, and social learners across the country. Such an initiative has systematically restructured the resource allocation mechanism, substantially transformed high-quality resources from the local advantages of a small number of schools into public service products supporting the balanced development of education throughout the country, and effectively promoted educational equity and the balance of high-quality resources.

Yang Zongkai:

The second is to promote the organizational model of teaching and learning from traditional standardization to individualized diversification. Using technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, the teaching process realizes analysis and intelligent intervention based on academic data, and the learning process shifts to autonomous exploration and immersive learning with human-computer collaboration. Such a shift not only helps implement large-scale individualized education, but also marks a shift in education in our country from “knowledge transfer” to “capacity enhancement”.

Yang Zongkai:

The third is to promote the application model of intelligent technology from tool assistance to scene integration. Through the implementation of artificial intelligence to empower education, artificial intelligence has evolved from a single tool to a core element driving the entire teaching process, and has penetrated into core scenarios such as admissions examinations, teaching evaluation, employment services, and campus governance. For example, the intelligent learning partner created in Ningxia provided services such as oral English sparring and mental health counseling for more than 100,000 primary and secondary school students. Take Yinchuan No. 15 Middle School as an example. 67% of students have significantly improved their listening and listening skills through intelligent learning companions; the school also covered the application of intelligent operation systems, achieving a lifetime of homework, and improving correction efficiency by 50%. Digital technology has become an endogenous driving force for reshaping the education system, providing key support for building a flexible, open, and personalized future education system.

Yang Zongkai:

Fourth, promote the decision-making model for education governance from empirical judgment to data-driven. With the launch of the National Big Data Center and the National Platform's Intelligent Center, education governance has gradually realized dynamic perception, accurate analysis, and scientific early warning of global data. It has not only greatly improved management efficiency and responsiveness, but also promoted the transformation of the education governance system to accuracy, intelligence, flatness, collaboration, and modernization. “Using data to talk and use data to make decisions” will become a new paradigm for education governance.

Yang Zongkai:

Currently, global digital education is developing rapidly. The US, the European Union, and some developed countries around us all place artificial intelligence education at the core of national strategies and are competing to increase investment. According to the “Global Digital Education Development Index Report”, China's overall level has jumped from 24th place in 2023 and 9th place in 2024 to 6th place in 2025, and has firmly ranked first in the global digital education development. The key to this achievement is that China has systematically built and accelerated the formation of its own unique advantages in the three core dimensions of literacy improvement, model restructuring, and governance upgrading: in terms of improving literacy, our country has incorporated artificial intelligence into the new compulsory education curriculum, consolidated the talent base, simultaneously implemented digital enabling teacher development actions, promoted the improvement of teachers' digital literacy, and built a solid foundation of manpower and ability for the digital transformation of education. In terms of model restructuring, we have built the world's largest smart education platform, and relied on the platform to carry out application practices such as AI teaching on a large scale to promote a profound transformation of teaching to “teach according to ability”, systematically cultivate students' innovative thinking and comprehensive ability to solve complex problems, and build a new path for future talent development. In terms of education governance, China's National Education Big Data Center was officially launched, enabling extensive sharing of education data, providing data support for key management scenarios such as resource allocation optimization, teaching quality monitoring, and education and teaching evaluation, and laying a solid foundation for accurate data-driven governance.

Yang Zongkai:

Facing the “15th Five-Year Plan”, facing a new wave of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, education must actively carry out systematic reshaping. We believe that “artificial intelligence +” should be used as the main driving force. In terms of policy layout, we should further highlight the position of digitization of education in the education power strategy, and carry out a systematic layout around artificial intelligence to empower education to ensure that technological innovation always serves the fundamental task of building morality. In terms of development concept, the goal is to build a new system of educating people adapted to the needs of talents in the digital intelligence era, and to accelerate the full-chain and in-depth reshaping of the education system in terms of goals, content, methods, and evaluations. On the practical path, we will continue to promote the deepening and implementation of artificial intelligence to empower education pilot projects and demonstration actions by deepening “the integration of artificial intelligence into all elements and processes of education” as a starting point. We believe that in the future, with the full support of digitalization, education in China will move towards a new level of fairness, higher quality, more vitality, and sustainability. New forms and scenarios such as future teachers, future classrooms, future schools, and future learning centers will be built at an accelerated pace, providing strong support for everyone's lifelong development.

That's all for my introduction, thank you all.

Chen Xing:

Thank you Professor Yang. That's all for the guest introduction session. Now let's move on to the question-and-answer session. Reporters and friends are invited to ask questions.

People's Daily reporter:

Minister Huai was recently interviewed in this newspaper's “Authoritative Interview on Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee”. Minister Huai proposed using artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies to build “four futures,” that is, future teachers, future classrooms, future schools, and future learning centers. I have two questions about this. The first question to ask Director Zhou is how will the Ministry of Education promote the “Four Futures” construction and achieve results? The second question asked President Xia, how will universities use artificial intelligence technology to enable higher education teaching reform? Thank you.

Zhou Dawang:

Thank you to this journalist friend for the question. The Ministry of Education released the “White Paper on Smart Education in China” at the 2025 World Digital Education Conference, beginning the first year of smart education. Facing the new stage of smart education development, it is necessary to establish new standards for talent training, actively explore new models of future education, and open up new paths for educational transformation. To this end, we are promoting the construction of the “Four Futures” based on the new stage of the national education digitalization strategy and promoting the transformation of educating people from knowledge transfer to improving competency and literacy.

Zhou Dawang:

The first is to train a team of future teachers. Teachers are the key to educational transformation. We will compare the new roles and missions given to teachers by artificial intelligence to develop a core competency framework for future teachers, carry out comprehensive, full-cycle teacher competency training, and continuously improve teachers' teaching standards. At the same time, promote “mutual recruitment and sharing” of school-enterprise talents in vocational education and higher education, and promote the deep integration of education and teaching with industry needs.

The second is to push for future classroom reforms. The classroom is the main place for educating people. We will explore a new model of constructing a “teacher-machine-student” three-element collaborative classroom, develop guidelines for future classroom construction, support primary and secondary schools to achieve individualized teaching under large-scale training conditions, promote vocational colleges and universities to combine subject and professional characteristics, promote in-depth classroom transformation, and comprehensively improve the quality of classroom education.

Zhou Dawang:

The third is to create a model for future schools. We will promote the deep integration of intelligent technology into all aspects of teaching, management, service, and decision-making, accelerate the construction of a smart and connected education system, focus on building an open and flexible education model, improve a data-driven management system, and build a smart education ecosystem that optimizes teaching models, adapts personalized learning, enables full-cycle growth, and upgrades modern governance.

Fourth, create future learning centers. We will organize the pilot construction of future learning centers, bring together high-quality learning resources with all elements of smart courses, digital textbooks, virtual simulation experiments, etc., build a cross-border integrated learning space integrating resource scheduling, learning design, and growth evaluation, build an interest-driven, competence-oriented, and ubiquitous intelligent future learning center, restructure the learning ecosystem, and enhance students' ability to adapt to the future core competitiveness.

I'll introduce these first.

Xia Quncae:

Thank you to this friend of the People's Daily. Facing the intelligent era, colleges and universities should actively promote artificial intelligence to comprehensively and thoroughly empower innovative breakthroughs in education and teaching based on the concept of understanding artificial intelligence, using artificial intelligence, innovative artificial intelligence, and good governance of artificial intelligence.

Zhejiang University will continue to promote the “Advanced Artificial Intelligence Program for Education and Teaching”, promote the cultivation of high-quality artificial intelligence talents, and promote the collaborative development of artificial intelligence education in universities around the world, including the following four points:

Xia Quncae:

The first is to deepen the construction of “AI+X” micro-majors, optimize course classification design, improve course quality assessment and credit conversion standards, promote the deep integration and innovative development of artificial intelligence with education and teaching, and further promote it throughout the country.

The second is to further develop intelligent curriculum construction, accelerate the application of intelligent teaching assistants such as public basic courses, explore the creation of a new series of digital intelligence textbooks embedded with intelligent tools, and construct a new paradigm of personalized teaching.

The third is to build a communication ecosystem and regularly host annual meetings and series of forums on AI education and teaching to provide a high-end platform for cross-school cooperation and experience sharing.

Xia Quncae:

Fourth, promote innovative collaboration in artificial intelligence education and teaching in universities around the world, develop artificial intelligence literacy reports representing global consensus, launch smart MOOCs and AI+X micro majors, etc., to further explore the future challenges of AI for education and AI in education with an advanced iterative concept, promote the cultivation of highly qualified AI talents, and promote the collaborative development of artificial intelligence education in colleges and universities around the world.

Thank you again.

CCTV reporter at the general station:

In recent years, the European Union, the United States, Singapore and other countries and regions have introduced special strategies for digitizing education. During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, how can we maintain the good development trend and strong influence of digital education in China? What are the main key factors? Thank you.

Yang Zongkai:

Thank you to this journalist friend for the question. On a global scale, digital education has become a new racetrack for countries to compete. According to the newly released Global Digital Education Development Index, China has shown strong momentum in exploring the application of artificial intelligence to empower education. To maintain a leading edge and expand international influence during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period and beyond, I think the key is the consistency of platforms, data, AI tools, and policies. Only in this way can we continue to deepen education and teaching reforms and reshape the new education ecosystem:

Yang Zongkai:

The first is to further promote integration and establish a data support system that can be integrated throughout the region. Continue to promote the construction of a national education big data center, build a data system covering the whole process of enrollment, teaching, management and employment, and achieve “one number one source”, orderly sharing and efficient use of education data. Accelerate the construction of China's autonomous and controllable artificial intelligence model for education, and promote its application to typical scenarios such as teaching, students, and management. Give full play to the advantages of the system and establish and improve long-term mechanisms such as data management, collaborative responsibility, and safety ethics.

Yang Zongkai:

The second is to comprehensively promote intelligence and explore a new paradigm of integration between artificial intelligence and education. Adhere to the fundamental task of building morality, so that artificial intelligence technology can always serve human development, help achieve large-scale individualized education, and cultivate more innovative talents adapted to the development of the times. Integrate artificial intelligence technology into all elements and processes of education and teaching, and promote the intelligent upgrading of teaching models. We always follow the core concept of intelligence for good, correctly view the challenges brought about by artificial intelligence, strengthen AI tools and application development standards, build a healthy, safe and sustainable education ecosystem, and help students develop physically and mentally healthy and comprehensively.

Yang Zongkai:

The third is to enhance the new effectiveness of educating people and promote the overall improvement of the digital literacy of teachers and students through digitalization. Artificial intelligence has changed the knowledge structure and expanded the boundaries of knowledge. Improving teachers' and students' digital literacy and artificial intelligence application capabilities is a basic and long-term task, deepening digital empowerment teacher development actions, improving the standard system, and carrying out normalized training. It is necessary to promote integrated artificial intelligence general education in universities, middle schools, and schools in an integrated manner, incorporate digital literacy into students' comprehensive quality evaluations, and enhance students' digital competency and innovative thinking.

Yang Zongkai:

Fourth, vigorously promote internationalization and contribute Chinese wisdom to global digital education governance. Participate extensively in negotiations on global governance and rules, and continuously enhance China's participation, influence and voice in global digital education issues. Build and strengthen the international version of the National Smart Education Platform to promote mutual learning of ideas, experience sharing and practical cooperation. Continue to organize the World Digital Education Conference, promote the physical operation of the World Digital Education Alliance, and inject Chinese wisdom into global digital education governance.

China Youth Daily Reporter:

My question was addressed to Deputy Director Yang Fei. There are significant differences in the economic base, endowment of educational resources, and cultural characteristics among the different regions of our country. How can the Ministry of Education address the diversity of needs in promoting digitalization? How to provide more targeted and differentiated support services? Thank you.

Yang Fei:

Thanks to this reporter for the question. The question you asked is very important; it is also an issue that the national platform must solve well. As you said, there are differences in the economic base, endowment of educational resources, and cultural characteristics in different regions of our country. While we focus on applying national platforms to continuously expand the benefits of high-quality resources, we are also continuously striving to solve the problem of diversified needs by providing differentiated services. We believe that diverse and rich supply of high-quality resources and personalized and accurate service on platforms are the key to solving this problem. The two are indispensable and complement each other. We mainly work on these two aspects.

Yang Fei:

In terms of resource integration, we first achieve the interconnection of national and local platforms by standardizing user access, resource access, application access, and data communication, and integrate high-quality and characteristic resources on platforms at all levels into national platforms, thereby serving users across the country. The second is to gather generative resources suitable for different user groups through various channels such as activity collection and user sharing. The third is to establish a resource number mechanism to encourage local authorities, schools, publishing houses, professional institutions and other forces and expert teams to closely follow national curriculum standards and requirements for the comprehensive development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic labor, and normalize the construction of high-quality resources on national platforms. Fourth, the government uses the method of purchasing services to gather high-quality enterprise resources, tools and services to provide parents with more flexible and richer choices on the basis of the principle of ensuring free use by users. Through the above various methods, the national platform initially formed a resource structure to meet the needs of different users.

Yang Fei:

In terms of accurate push, through rich application data, the national platform provides resources and user profiles, and enables personalized promotion of resources and services in areas such as teacher preparation, teaching and research, training, and student learning and practice. The first is to build an exclusive educational intelligence system to achieve core functions such as intelligent search and personalized recommendations. The second is to develop adaptive learning functions for some subjects, combine students' learning progress and knowledge acquisition, dynamically generate study plans for students, and promote relevant learning resources. Third, according to user behavior habits, relevant course resources, teaching and research activities, new information, etc. are promoted on the platform in real time. Greatly improve the accuracy and adaptability of platform services. Through the above methods, the platform has been greatly improved in meeting the individualized needs of teachers and students in different regions, school segments, and learning characteristics.

To answer these, I would like to thank this journalist friend once again.

Farmers Daily Reporter:

Director Feng just explained that the national platform has become a key support for improving the quality of teaching in eastern, western, and northern Guangdong. I would like to ask Director Feng to explain in detail how Guangdong Province can use the National Smart Education Platform to solve the problem of unbalanced quality education resources between urban and rural areas and between schools, so that quality education resources can benefit every student more widely? Thank you.

Feng Wei:

Thank you for your questions, and thank you very much for your attention and support for the development of education in Guangdong. I have just introduced the overall practice of digitizing education in Guangdong during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period in expanding quality, integrating innovation, and coexistence. Here, we will expand the comprehensive and deepening application of the national smart education platform a little more.

Guangdong is a major economic province, but the eastern, western, and northern regions of Guangdong actually still have clear gaps in education investment, teacher standards, teaching conditions, and information technology infrastructure. Obtaining and applying high-quality education resources in the eastern, western, and northern regions of Guangdong was not easy before. Using the National Smart Education Platform as the core carrier, we focus on the three aspects of coverage and accessibility, capacity enhancement, and institutional linkage to promote the true sinking and widespread sharing of quality education resources in eastern, western, and northern Guangdong:

Feng Wei:

First, in terms of coverage and access, we are promoting the sinking of multiple channels for high-quality resources to overcome the “physical divide” of resource access.

The first is to pass through the five-level platform system, build an integrated digital education service system with vertical linkage of “countries, provinces, cities, counties, and schools”, open up a “main channel” for resource flow, and form a “network” for application services throughout the province and the country.

The second is to innovate household entry channels. In response to some actual situations where networks are unstable and terminal equipment is insufficient in some rural and remote areas, we are working with radio and television networks to deliver high-quality course resources from the national platform to every household through cable TV networks, covering about 23 million household users across the province, and helping rural students cross the “access divide.”

The third is to build a portal for resources with local characteristics, set up a “Guangdong Channel” within the national platform, and also systematically integrate some excellent cases and special cases developed by the province to form complementarity with the national platform.

Feng Wei:

Second, in terms of improving abilities, we carry out hierarchical classification and accurate training to bridge the “ability gap” of teachers' applications.

The first is to strengthen key leadership and implement a special training program for school chief information officers, covering 16,000 schools across the province to ensure that every school has “people who understand” the application of the national platform; simultaneously train more than 10,000 provincial digital literacy key teachers to form a “faceted” radiation network.

Second, to ensure full staff coverage, we have incorporated the in-depth application of the national platform into the teachers' continuing education credit system and the compulsory content of school-based training, and organized more than 930,000 special application training sessions across the province; various cities will also carry out nearly 800 online and offline practical training sessions, with a total of more than 1.67 million trainings, promoting the transformation of platform usage from “use” to “good use”.

Third, we focus on practical empowerment and transformation of results. By holding digital teaching case presentations, we encourage teachers to creatively incorporate platform resources into daily teaching and promote the transformation of what they have learned into real classroom transformative power.

Feng Wei:

Third, in terms of institutional linkage, establish a systematic support network to narrow the “quality gap” in teaching quality.

First, the group established an integrated twinning support system, deeply integrated into the “100 Counties, Thousand Towns, and Ten Thousand Villages High Quality Development Project”, organized 155 high-quality high schools in the Pearl River Delta and 227 weak high schools in counties to establish twinning relationships, and also systematically built 550 digital literacy promotion practice communities and 215 urban and rural education communities to form a stable, multi-level counterpart support network.

The second is to promote deep linkage and regular support between teaching and research, issue guidelines for teaching and research help, and standardize the organization of “Entering East, West, and North Guangdong” teaching and research activities. More than 2,100 sessions have been carried out, driving famous provincial teachers and teachers and researchers to go deep into rural school classrooms to carry out model teaching and joint teaching and research, benefiting more than 1.2 million teachers.

The third is to explore accurate data-driven assistance, and rely on teaching process and outcome data collected by national platforms to help weak schools accurately diagnose weak teaching links, so as to carry out targeted resource promotion, thematic teaching and research, and personalized counseling, and promote the transformation of support work from empirical judgment to data support and precise intervention.

Feng Wei:

Through the above three-in-one approach of “coverage - empowerment - linkage”, the national smart education platform has become not only a “distribution center” for high-quality resources in our province, but also an “enabling platform” for teacher growth and a “connecting hub” for regional collaboration. It has initially formed a good situation where quality education resources are widely shared, teaching ability is improved as a whole, and urban and rural schools develop together. Efforts have been made so that every child can enjoy a fairer and more quality education, laying a solid foundation for the construction of a strong education province.

Thanks again to this fellow journalist, thank you.

Reporter from the Economic Reference Journal:

The National Big Data Center and the National Platform Intelligent Platform were launched at this press conference, which initially realized data sharing and circulation and intelligent upgrading of the national platform. What role will this play in building a strong educational nation? Thank you.

Zhou Dawang:

Thank you to this media reporter for your questions. We have just launched the National Education Big Data Center and the National Platform Smart Platform. These two platforms are landmark achievements in the in-depth implementation of the Education Digitalization Strategy Action 2.0, focusing on the “3I” strategic direction of integration, intelligence, and internationalization. The two platforms each have their own focus and mutual support, and play a very important role in accelerating the construction of a strong education nation.

Zhou Dawang:

The launch of the National Education Big Data Center marks a new stage of “overall management, orderly sharing, and deep empowerment” of education data resources. The first is to promote the scientificization of educational decision-making. Big data centers break down data silos, penetrate data links across departments, regions, and academic segments, achieve real-time dynamic monitoring of core indicators such as resource layout, teacher allocation, student development, and teaching quality, and promote the transformation of education governance from “experience-driven” to “data-driven”. The second is to deepen the reform of education and teaching evaluation. At the micro level, big data centers can conduct in-depth analysis of students' learning processes, ability tendencies and development needs, and provide support for teachers to implement differentiated teaching, personalized counseling, and value-added evaluations. At the macro level, dig deeper into the rules of talent growth and changes in social needs to provide an evidence basis for dynamic adjustment of disciplines and majors and innovation in training models. The third is to stimulate innovation in education. Under the premise of safety and compliance, data sharing between the central government, departments and universities has been promoted in an orderly manner, consolidating the data base for the deep integration of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data with all educational scenarios such as teaching, management, and evaluation, accelerating the birth of innovative applications such as intelligent teaching assistants, intelligent learning companions, and accompanying evaluations, and injecting new momentum into the modernization of education.

Zhou Dawang:

The launch of the National Platform Intelligent Platform marks a key leap forward in the completion of the intelligent construction of the national platform from decentralized exploration to systematic empowerment. As the core engine of the intelligent evolution of the national platform, through standardized interfaces and modular packaging, the intelligent platform opens up a complete chain from computing power data foundation and model capability supply to creative use creation, unified access and scenarios, and has built an intelligent support system with vertical integration, high efficiency, safety and stability, focusing on the characteristics of “intensive capabilities, integrated scheduling, and on-demand services”. The platform can provide computing power and size model support. Users can quickly create agents or directly deploy related applications in a low-code manner through direct calls, and can be classified and managed according to application scenario categories. After completion, it will create an intelligent educational environment that empowers people to create and edit, and help transform learning methods and teaching methods.

Let me introduce these first, and then ask Professor Yang Zongkai, head of our expert committee, to further explain the role of these two platforms.

Yang Zongkai:

The launch of the National Education Big Data Center and the National Smart Education Platform Intelligent Platform is a leap forward upgrade of the education governance system and education model. It pushes the digitization of education in China from “consolidating the foundation” to “enhancing capacity”, and will inject stable and sustainable core digital momentum into the construction of an educational power.

Yang Zongkai:

First, accelerate the modernization of education governance capabilities and governance systems. The Education Big Data Center will promote the transformation of education governance from empirical judgment to data support, from decentralized management to overall collaboration, consolidate the foundation of digital governance for building a strong educational nation, provide accurate data support for education decisions, and achieve fairer, more efficient and scientific governance.

Yang Zongkai:

Second, it strongly supports the construction of a high-quality education system. The launch of the National Platform Smart Platform is a key upgrade to the platform's underlying architecture. It not only focuses on the present, but also considers the future. An intelligent platform integrates artificial intelligence, data services, and algorithm modules into reusable modules, so that different applications can be quickly used, which is conducive to lowering the threshold of application development, avoiding repetitive construction, saving computing power resources, providing accurate data-driven teaching assistance for teacher teaching, providing accompanying content guidance for student learning, providing a platform for cross-regional teaching and research and promotion of high-quality models, promoting intelligent teaching from demonstration pilots to universal application, and accelerating the process of intelligent transformation of education.

Chen Xing:

Thank you Professor Yang. That's it for the question and answer session. At today's press conference, we will also release the “Top Ten Education Reform Hot Words of 2025”.

This year, the Ministry of Education launched a comprehensive reform pilot of the three-year action plan for building a strong nation in education, to drive global reforms with small incisions and accelerate the shift from planning to practical implementation of the construction of a strong educational nation. Over the past year, two batches of 41 pilot tasks in six categories have borne fruit, showing a good trend of driving in-depth reform and forming collaborative efforts through pilot exploration and precise breakthroughs. At the end of this year, the Information Office of the Ministry of Education and the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center launched the “Top Ten Education Reform Topics in 2025”. They are: big thinking and politics classes, 2 hours of exercise every day, adjustment and optimization of subject and major settings, transformation of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities, training of excellent engineers, revitalization of the county, free preschool, expansion of excellent capital, “new double high” in vocational education, and education associations.

Chen Xing:

Dear journalists, we are about to make it through 2025. Looking back on this year, we have taken solid steps in building an educational power. This is inseparable from everyone's attention and support, and it is also full of everyone's hard work and sweat. Here, on behalf of the Information Office of the Ministry of Education, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone, and also extend my sincerest wishes for the New Year. In the new year, I hope to work hand in hand with everyone to tell more exciting educational stories in the new “15th Five-Year Plan” journey.

This concludes today's press conference. Thank you again to all the guests, reporters and friends. We'll see you next year!

This article was selected from the “Ministry of Education Official Website”, Zhitong Finance Editor: Xu Wenqiang.