Xinhuanet, Beijing, May 9th. Today, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of the 2025 World Digital Education Conference.

With the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Education, the National Committee of UNESCO of China, and the People's Government of Hubei Province will jointly hold the 2025 World Digital Education Conference in Wuhan, Hubei from May 14 to 16, with the theme of "Education Development and Change: The Intelligent Era".

Yang Dan, Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Ministry of Education

Yang Dan, Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Ministry of Education, introduced that the World Digital Education Conference is a brand multilateral exchange and cooperation platform initiated and built by the Ministry of Education. It has held two conferences in Beijing in 2023 and Shanghai in 2024. The 2025 World Digital Education Conference responds to the United Nations Global Education Change Initiative, welcomes a new stage of smart education, sets new standards, and explores new paths. It will give full play to the transformative power of intelligent technology, innovate educational content, reshape educational models, and reconstruct educational forms, and work together to promote the development and transformation of education in the intelligent era. The conference invited heads of relevant national education departments, heads of international organizations, principals of primary and secondary schools at home and abroad, representatives of teachers and students, representatives of digital technology companies, experts and scholars, etc. to conduct in-depth exchanges and discussions on issues such as technological frontiers, policy mechanisms, application promotion, and digital ethics.

Yang Dan introduced that this conference mainly consists of four links: the opening ceremony, the plenary meeting, the parallel meeting and the closing ceremony. Before the meeting, schools were arranged to visit, and a global education digital achievements exhibition was held at the same time to build an immersive exhibition scene that was linked online and offline.

Specifically, the opening ceremony will be held on the afternoon of May 14, including future classrooms, future schools and future teachers' displays, speeches, keynote speeches and other sessions. A plenary meeting was held on the morning of the 15th, including guest speeches and high-end dialogues on digital education; 10 parallel meetings were held in the afternoon, with the themes covering basic education, vocational education, higher education, lifelong learning, teacher development, digital education evaluation, global digital education governance, digital education security and ethics, artificial intelligence empowering STEM education, international artificial intelligence and education and other fields. The closing ceremony was held on the morning of the 16th. At present, all preparations for the conference are basically ready.

Yang Dan said that this conference will release five digital achievements in education: First, release the "China Smart Education White Paper" and launch the "National Digital Education Strategic Action 2.0"; Second, release the "Initiative on Building an International Digital Education Standards System Framework" and the "Overall Reference Framework of Education Big Model" alliance standards; Third, release the Global Digital Education Development Index 2025; Fourth, release the top ten hot topics in digital education research in the world; Fifth, release the "Wuhan Initiative for Digital Education Cooperation".

During the conference, an exhibition of digital educational achievements will also be held in Hall B6, Wuhan International Expo Center from May 14 to 17. The exhibition will also simultaneously launch an online virtual exhibition hall, based on 3D laser scanning and panoramic image reconstruction technology, build a high-precision digital twin space, integrating panoramic roaming, intelligent guide, interactive experience, data board and other functions. The online exhibition hall will be launched simultaneously on the same day and will be operated for a long time.

[Editor in charge: Yue Xiangzhi]