From May 14 to 16, the 2025 World Digital Education Conference was held in Wuhan, Hubei. The conference will release a number of digital education achievements, many of which are closely related to people's livelihood and well-being. With the introduction of a series of favorable measures for people's livelihood, the effectiveness of benefiting the people brought by the development of digital education is accelerating.

  Let “live and learn” reflect from ideals into reality

  In the digital age, learning breaks through the campus wall and becomes a "firm need" throughout life. Relying on the national smart education public service platform, my country has built a full-cycle learning resource library, so that "live until old, learn until old" will change from concept to tactible reality.

The picture shows the website of the National Lifelong Education Smart Education Platform

  At present, my country has built the world's largest public education resource platform, public education service platform, and public lifelong learning platform. Data shows that the cumulative registered users of the National Smart Education Public Service Platform have exceeded 164 million.

  In March 2025, the National Smart Education Platform 2.0 intelligent version was released, among which the functions of the Lifetime Education Smart Education Platform were fully intelligently upgraded. At present, the platform has formed a lifelong learning resource system with more types, more levels and more diverse types, providing learners with multi-type, multi-level and diverse high-quality learning resources and personalized, intelligent and convenient learning support services.

  The picture shows visitors visiting the 2025 World Digital Education Conference Education Digital Achievements Exhibition on May 14. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Zixuan

  At the 2025 World Digital Education Conference, the Digital Education Achievements Exhibition was launched simultaneously. At the exhibition, a series of innovative practices vividly demonstrate the help of digital technology to lifelong learning.

The picture shows the exhibition site of the 2025 World Digital Education Conference Education Digital Achievements Exhibition.

  In the "living room" built by the National Open University, the audience can practice calligraphy, the writing process is recorded and uploaded to the cloud, and artificial intelligence analyzes the brushwork word by word inscriptions and calligraphy.

  "Now, I am taking more learners to learn on the national lifelong education smart education platform. I believe that digital education can help every lifelong learner become a better self." Dong Ming, a national moral model and a teacher at Wuhan Open University, is quite touched by this.

  High-quality resources are connected to urban and rural areas with "zero threshold" sharing

  Digitalization allows high-quality educational resources to transcend spatial barriers, break through time and space, connect urban and rural areas, cross mountains and seas, fly into rural areas, ethnic areas, and poverty-stricken areas, and present high-quality educational resources of "special delivery classroom", "famous teacher classroom" and "famous school online classroom" to the eyes that are eager for knowledge.

  On May 16, 2022, at Dasaixiang Primary School in Shashi, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, students conducted rhythmic exercises with Yajiao Primary School in remote townships through the "Air Classroom". Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiao Yijiu

  In Hainan, the implementation of the "simultaneous/special delivery classroom" and teaching point aerial classroom projects in small-scale rural schools based on the national platform has effectively ensured that more than 1,000 rural schools can offer courses in English, science, music, etc., and nearly 250,000 students have benefited.

The picture shows teachers and students studying through distance courses in Sansha, Hainan.

  At the School of Civil Engineering of Lanzhou University of Technology, students can complete experimental teaching tasks such as real-time mixed simulation experiments of engineering experiments online through the National Higher Education Smart Education Platform. At present, the "MOOC Western Tour Plan" launched by the National Higher Education Platform has provided a total of 207,000 MOOCs and online course services to universities in the central and western regions. Universities in the eastern and western regions have jointly carried out 9.36 million mixed teaching, and the number of students benefiting from the western region has reached 590 million.

  In addition, many places have also explored new models such as "smart classroom" and "dual-teacher classroom". Beijing integrates high-quality municipal curriculum resources to create a "air classroom" platform to support students to broadcast on demand; Yunnan uses 5G technology to promote the pairing of high-quality schools in urban areas and rural schools, and carry out "1+N" synchronous classrooms; Zhejiang uses virtual simulation training technology to allow students to feel the full-process scene-based reappearance in the practical training courses, opening up the "last mile" from school to industry.

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The picture shows teachers and students studying through distance courses at Wenmingpu Town Central Primary School in Qiyang City, Hunan Province.

  The digitalization of education is being promoted in an all-round way with faster speed and better efficiency. The educational gap between urban and rural areas, regions, schools and groups has gradually been effectively bridged.

  "Intelligent" service matters improve "one-stop service" and less running

  Digital technology continues to empower the field of education, not only reshapes the learning methods, breaks the time and space limitations of knowledge transmission, but also brings the efficiency and convenience of educational services.

The picture shows the "Service Hall" section of the National Smart Education Public Service Platform

  Log in to the service hall of the National Smart Education Public Service Platform, and you will find employment services, examination services, academic qualifications, study abroad services, language services, off-campus services, and teacher services. The Ministry of Education takes the platform as the hub and integrates high-quality platforms, resources and services at all levels to gradually realize portal unity, resource sharing, and data integration.

  Let "more data to run more, and less errands for the masses". Through the "Internet + Government Service" model, the education matters that the people are "urgent, difficult and anxious" are brought to the cloud, and the service efficiency is improved through intelligent means.

  In Shanghai, education data is connected to the city's "one-stop service" platform. Parents can apply for admission registration, tuition payment, after-school service course selection and other businesses through the "Suishenban" client to reduce the number of errands. At the same time, the education department can monitor the supply and demand of degrees in each district in real time and optimize resource allocation.

  In Sichuan, a provincial education big data platform has been built to gather student growth data, teacher development data, and school management data, and generate regional education quality reports through AI analysis to assist in policy formulation.

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  The variables of technological evolution are transforming into incremental educational development

  Not long ago, the 2025 deployment meeting of the National Education Digitalization Strategic Action held by the Ministry of Education emphasized the need to scientifically grasp the positioning, direction and methods of artificial intelligence in the construction of a strong education country, and actively promote artificial intelligence to empower the construction of a strong education country.

  Keeping pace with the times, this year, the National Smart Education Public Service Platform has mastered "new capabilities". In the artificial intelligence (AI) test field, digital problem-solving assistants, code error correction assistants, and code solution assistants empower students to learn; AI classrooms, AI teaching assistants, and intelligent question-setting assistants empower teachers to teach; big models and information technology platforms empower scientific research...

The picture shows the "AI Testing Field" section on the National Smart Education Public Service Platform

  With speeding up and shifting gears, my country's education and teaching intelligence develop rapidly, and the new concepts, new models and new solutions of "artificial intelligence + education" are constantly explored, the measures are resolute and powerful, and the results are satisfactory.

The picture shows teachers and students learning ancient poems through AI technology in class.

  New models continue to emerge. In Ningxia rural primary school classroom, students can pretend to be robots, execute engineers' instructions, contact algorithms, and understand programming; they can also simulate the express honeycomb system through programming with their friends.

  The dividends are shared by more teachers and students. Select 184 artificial intelligence education bases for primary and secondary schools; release two batches of 50 typical cases of "artificial intelligence + higher education" application scenarios; launch and implement pilot projects for artificial intelligence to empower higher education innovation, establish cross-regional artificial intelligence education alliance; promote artificial intelligence to promote the construction of the teacher team, and implement the "101 Plan" in the field of artificial intelligence; add 24 new majors such as high-power semiconductor science and engineering, intelligent marine equipment, etc., including...

The picture shows teachers and students of Beijing Fuxue Hutong Primary School taking AI courses. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Zhigang

  R&D and application are eye-catching. In the field of basic education, the Chinese Academy of Education and R&D institutions jointly launched a large model of intelligent teachers in primary and secondary schools led by the teaching thinking chain; in the field of higher education, the research and development practice of large models covering multiple disciplines such as physics, biology, and applied economics has been promoted. For example, Zhejiang University has created the education-specific big model "Zhihai-Sanle", which provides intelligent question-and-answer, question generation, learning navigation, teaching evaluation and other services, and has launched pilot applications in many domestic universities.

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  At present, artificial intelligence has set off a new climax of digitalization, and "what is education and where is education going" has become a common proposition for the times that globally think about.

  The theme of the 2025 World Digital Education Conference is "Education Development and Change: The Smart Era". At the exhibition of digital education achievements, focusing on rural education, special education and other areas of people's livelihood, we have seen Chinese experience, Chinese solutions and Chinese wisdom.

  On May 14, visitors visited the 2025 World Digital Education Conference Education Digital Achievements Exhibition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Zixuan

  How can digital technology help rural education? China Unicom uses "5G+AI" technology to carry out special delivery classes based on the national smart education public service platform, allowing the tea fragrance in Danjiangkou to float into the classroom of Tuguanya Town Central School. It also uses the parent-school and social linkage model to carry out parent-child tea ceremony and digital training for tea farmers' skills. This experience has been listed as a typical case by the UNESCO Rural Education Center.

  How can digital technology make special education more accurate and scientific? Xiangyang Special Education School in Hubei Province uses brain wave and facial recognition technology to assist in evaluation and screening to customize personalized courses for students; simulate situational experience to make rehabilitation training no longer boring.

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  The variables of technological evolution are transforming into incremental educational development. The new achievements of the 2025 World Digital Education Conference are the "upgrade" of the sense of education technology and the "increase" of people's livelihood and happiness. We look forward to what new measures will be taken to benefit the people in the future. (Feng Wenya's source: China Education News and the Ministry of Education's official WeChat official account Xinhua News Agency CCTV News, etc.)
[Editor in charge: Feng Wenya]