The Seventh Digital China Summit opened in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, on the morning of 24 May 2024. It was the first summit held following the restructuring of China’s national data governance system. Its theme was ‘Unlocking the Value of Data as a Factor of Production and Developing New Quality Productive Forces’. Ding Xuexiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony.
On the afternoon of 24 May, the Digital Education session of the Digital Society sub-forum took place under the theme ‘Data-enabled Educational Transformation and Innovation’. Hosted by the Ministry of Education, it was jointly organized by the Fujian Provincial Department of Education, Fuzhou University, the Ministry of Education’s Research Base for Educational Informatization Strategy (Beijing), and China Telecommunications Corporation. Vice Minister of Education Wu Yan, Deputy Head of the National Data Administration Xia Bing, Fujian Provincial Government Party Leadership Group member Li Xinghu, and China Telecommunications Corporation President Liang Baojun attended and delivered remarks.
Wu Yan emphasized that data has become a new factor of production with a foundational and strategic role in digitalization, networking and the development of intelligent systems. Through the national education digitalization strategy, the Ministry of Education will further explore the value of data and coordinate its use in teaching and learning, management and governance, assessment and research, harnessing its multiplier effect to improve educational quality and efficiency.
One of the organizers, the Ministry of Education’s Research Base for Educational Informatization Strategy (Beijing), is based at Beijing Normal University. Professor Zhou Haitao of BNU’s Faculty of Education was invited to deliver a keynote presentation on the university’s experience of using data to innovate educational research paradigms, research settings and research capacity development.
Experts and representatives from government and industry discussed AI-enabled future education, the value of data as a factor of production, regional digital transformation in education, and educational data security and privacy. The research base’s publication ‘Social Experiments on AI in Education: Scenarios, Technologies and Mechanisms’ was distributed as a conference resource.
More than 300 participants attended, including representatives of BNU’s social sciences research administration, relevant national agencies, local education authorities, universities directly affiliated with the Ministry of Education, universities jointly supported by the ministry and provincial governments, research institutions and enterprises.
Original link: https://aiedchair.bnu.edu.cn/cit-digital-china-summit-2024-en/