Shou Xiaoli:

Many of you are concerned about education, and I see several journalists with raised hands. Due to time constraints, we'll take two final questions.

China Youth Daily:

The MOE has continued to promote the national education digitalization strategic action. What important achievements have been made in the past three years? How will we further promote and build this learning society in the future? What are the specific measures in this regard? Thank you.

Wang Guangyan:

Thank you for your question. The digitalization of education represents a crucial breakthrough point for China, allowing it to pioneer new pathways and build fresh advantages in educational development. Over the past three years, the MOE has fully implemented the national education digitalization strategic action. We have made application the top priority and governance our foundation, and moved towards integration, intelligence, and internationalization in accordance with the principles of connection first, content as the basis, and cooperation as the key. We have built a national smart education platform, expanded the sharing of high-quality educational resources, promoted educational reforms and innovation, and transformed China's educational institutional and scale advantages into drivers of high-quality educational development. The ministers who spoke just now also talked about the outstanding achievements made in promoting educational equity in all aspects through digitalization.

Today, high-quality education is accessible anytime and anywhere, with excellent courses available throughout the country. At the same time, the integration and widespread use of resources bring real benefits to teachers and students. To give you an example, last week, I visited a primary school during my trip to Kashgar, Xinjiang. The school has made full use of the national smart education platform, where teachers easily prepare and teach math lessons. The principal noted that every teacher in the school skillfully uses the platform for training, learning and class discussions. This experience showed me how the national smart education platform, as part of our digital strategy, has expanded access to high-quality resources. This is particularly significant for improving under-resourced schools and promoting educational equality.

China's contribution to global digital education has been significantly enhanced through three years of continuous iteration and upgrading. This is not only a new track, momentum and advantage for our educational development but has also put our digital education transformation in a leading position globally. To cite one data point, China's ranking in the Global Digital Education Development Index jumped from 24th to ninth, a significant achievement. As Mr. Huai just noted, the national platform has received more than 50 billion visits, covering more than 200 countries and regions. It has become the world's largest digital center and service platform for educational resources. It was awarded the King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize, UNESCO's highest award for education informatization.

Standing at a new historical starting point for strengthening education, we must further strengthen planning and innovative policy initiatives, fully unleash the powerful momentum of educational digitalization to open up new development areas and create new advantages, and explore effective ways to use digitization to empower large-scale individualized and innovative teaching. Next, we will advance our work in five areas.

In terms of deepening institutional reform, we will formulate guidelines to accelerate education digitalization, adapt to the development patterns of different types of education, and ensure effective connections between national and local platforms. We will build a government-led, multi-participant resource supply and application incentive mechanism. We will also establish long-term mechanisms, including standardized sharing and effective big data development empowerment. Therefore, mechanism building must be our top priority.

In terms of platform resource construction, we will prioritize practical applications and improve and make better use of the national smart education platform. We will expand pilot programs for comprehensive platform implementation, promote integration and interoperability, improve resource distribution, and continuously meet the personalized needs of teachers and students across all levels and types of schools.

In terms of empowering the construction of a learning society, we will build a public education service platform for lifelong learning. In accordance with the National Education Conference's deployment, we will build a lifelong learning system based on the qualifications framework, with a credit bank as a platform, focusing on learning outcomes certification. Through digital empowerment, we will promote the construction of a learning society and the development of lifelong education.

In terms of artificial intelligence, we will maximize the role of artificial intelligence as the "golden key," implement AI-enabled education actions in depth, establish an education evaluation and scientific decision-making system based on big data and AI, enhance the digital literacy of teachers and students, and help promote educational reforms.

Finally, we will continue to expand openness and cooperation, actively promote international exchanges in digital education, ensure the success of the World Digital Education Conference, accelerate the construction of the international version of the national smart education platform, and promote Chinese digital education solutions to the world. Thank you.