Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 16 (Reporters Zhu Gaoxiang and Shi Yucen) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Education on the 16th that in order to open up a new track for education development and shape new development advantages, and to comprehensively support the construction of a strong country in education, the Ministry of Education and nine other departments issued opinions on accelerating the digitalization of education, proposing to comprehensively promote intelligence, promote artificial intelligence to assist education reform, and promote digital upgrades of disciplines and majors and changes in scientific research paradigms.

　　Zhou Dawang, Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, said that digitalization of education is an inevitable trend in contemporary development. It is not only a technological revolution in the field of education, but also a profound change in educational concepts, teaching models, and educational governance. With the rapid development of information technology, digitalization has brought unprecedented opportunities to education, allowing high-quality educational resources to benefit every learner more equitably, providing possibilities for personalized learning and precise teaching, and laying the foundation for providing education that satisfies the people.

　　The opinions are clear, to focus on the digital economy and future industrial development, optimize the settings of disciplines and majors in higher education, advance the layout of disciplines and majors in the digital field, and promote talent training, scientific and technological innovation, technology research and development and achievement transformation in an integrated manner. Facing the digital transformation needs of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, we will dynamically adjust vocational education majors to empower the deep integration of production and education. Use artificial intelligence technology to promote the transformation of scientific research paradigm, improve the efficiency of scientific research organization, improve the efficiency of results transformation, and generate growth points for derivative disciplines, and help build a number of emerging disciplines and interdisciplinary disciplines.

　　In terms of promoting the digital transformation of curriculum, textbooks and teaching, the opinions propose that we must improve the knowledge map, build a capability map, deepen the application of education big models, promote the intelligent upgrade of the curriculum system, textbook system, and teaching system, integrate artificial intelligence technology into the entire element and process of education and teaching, and promote the integration of science and technology education and humanities education.

　　The opinions require that all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) should be encouraged to formulate digital solutions to promote the overall fair and high-quality development of regional education, and realize the interconnection of provincial platforms, resources, and services with national platforms. Deeply implement the "Same Good Class", MOOC Western Tour 2.0 plan, reading action, etc., and give priority to supporting rural areas, ethnic areas, and poverty-stricken areas.

[Editor in charge: Wang Di]