AI empowers Central Asia’s education leadership improvement and digital education industry docking project to start classes in Lanzhou

China News Service, Lanzhou, September 13 (Reporter Yan Jiao) The "AI Empowers Central Asia Educational Leadership Improvement and Digital Education Industry Docking Project" training class opened on the 13th at Northwest Normal University in Lanzhou, Gansu. The training lasts for 9 days and will focus on topics such as AI and global education reform, China’s education digitalization strategy, and AI-empowered higher education.

"Currently, digital technology has been actively used in China's education and management fields. We hope to understand China's experience, see specific solutions and the results of these solutions in practice, and have candid exchanges on the difficulties that arise during the application process." Eshplatov Elginbek, director of the Digital and Artificial Intelligence Technology Department of the Ministry of Higher Education of Uzbekistan, said in Lanzhou that day.

"The training focuses on the collision of ideas and exchange of experiences, jointly exploring digital education development paths that suit the national conditions of each country, and striving to build the project into a distinctive brand of cultural exchanges between China and Central Asia." Jia Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee of Northwest Normal University, said that in recent years, the school and Central Asian countries have become increasingly close in terms of academic research, talent training, and cultural exchanges: 2 The Institute of Central Asia was established in 2016. So far, it has recruited and trained more than 600 students from Central Asia; it has jointly organized nine "China-Central Asia International Forum on Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation" with Central Asian universities; it has published Chinese translations of "Common Laws of Kyrgyzstan", "Common Laws of Kazakhstan" and "Common Laws of Uzbekistan".

Suleymanova Nargiza, Vice President of Issyk-Kul State University in Kyrgyzstan, said she looks forward to expanding knowledge and accumulating practical experience. She also looks forward to bringing these concepts back to share with colleagues and students, and exploring the possibility of further application.

Zeng Huahui, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Department of Education, said that in recent years, the province has actively promoted the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence and education and teaching, and has successively issued a series of action plans for artificial intelligence to empower higher education, basic education and teacher development, implemented the "artificial intelligence + education" action, and continued to promote digital technology to empower education and teaching, talent training and educational governance.