China News Service, Beijing, March 9 (Li Jinlei and Xu Xueying) This year's government work report proposes to carry out the "Artificial Intelligence " action. Speaking of artificial intelligence and education, China's Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng said in Beijing on the 9th that for the education system, artificial intelligence is the "golden key". It not only affects future education, but also the future of education. Here is Opportunities also have challenges.

The press conference on the theme of people's livelihood of the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress was held on the same day. Huai Jinpeng said at the meeting that if you want to better seize opportunities and meet challenges, you must actively embrace the transformation of technology and industry and actively embrace the intelligent era.

On March 9, the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress held a press conference in Beijing. The picture shows Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng answering reporters’ questions. Photo by He Penglei, a reporter from China News Service

Huai Jinpeng said that in the future, he will be committed to cultivating a large number of teachers with digital literacy, strengthening the construction of the teaching team, and deepening artificial intelligence technology into the entire process and links of education, teaching and management to study its effectiveness and adaptability, so that The younger generation learns more actively, allowing teachers to teach more creatively.

He said that he would strengthen the training of high-level talents in related disciplines and majors of artificial intelligence, improve scientific research and innovation capabilities, and accelerate platform construction.

Huai Jinpeng said that we should also pay more attention to the normative nature of artificial intelligence ethics, privacy protection, etc. under digital education, guide and build a good platform, and actively participate in the world's rule formulation on the relationship between artificial intelligence and education and ethics.

On that day, Huai Jinpeng also answered questions about basic education. He introduced that China is hosting the world's largest basic education. As of now, there are 487,900 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens nationwide, with 230 million students and 16.1 million teachers.

Regarding the implementation of the action to expand and improve the quality of basic education, Huai Jinpeng said that it is necessary to "expand and improve the quality" from five aspects: structural layout, degree supply, training capabilities, teacher team, and cooperative education. He said that we must continuously improve the operating conditions and school management capabilities of rural boarding schools and weak urban schools, so that more children can go to "good schools" at their doorstep. (over)