The 2023 China–Southeast Asia TVET leadership workshop took place in Tianjin and Beijing. It was organised by the China Education Association for International Exchange, Beijing Normal University, Tianjin Municipal Education Commission and SEAMEO TED, and hosted by the UNESCO Chair on AI in Education and Tianjin Light Industry Vocational Technical College. This report focuses on its enterprise visits.
Delegates from eight countries
With support from Chair partners, more than 30 education officials, vocational-college leaders and managers visited Chinese technology enterprises to learn about the sector and digital applications across industries. They represented eight Southeast Asian countries:
- Brunei Darussalam
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- The Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
Digital-economy displays and applications
At Alibaba’s Wangjing centre, a large LED “digital Qingming Scroll” adapted imagery from the Song-dynasty painting to integrate digital-technology achievements into an animated, interactive economic panorama. Lighting and a time-tunnel-style exhibition introduced corporate culture, business models, innovation and development strategy.
Within the exhibition’s contemporary themes of consumption, cloud computing and globalisation, delegates explored commercial and social applications connecting digital technologies and the physical economy, including:
- Taobao
- Alipay
- Cainiao logistics
- Apsara cloud computing
- Xiaomanlv delivery robots
Welcome and cooperation outlook
SEAMEO TED Director Songheang Ai thanked Alibaba for hosting and welcomed the development of Chinese technology enterprises. Huang Guijing, Senior Vice President for Alibaba Cloud Education, welcomed the delegation and described digital technologies as increasingly part of everyday life, looking forward to innovation and digital–physical integration with global partners. Roles and remarks reflect the 2023 account.
Cloud computing for rural schools
Chen Shuangle, responsible for solutions in Alibaba’s youth cloud-education support initiative, described bringing cloud-based computers into rural schools to support educational digital transformation and fairer access to tools as a contribution to educational equity.
Infrastructure and technical exchanges
He Chuan, head of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence’s Computing Nest, discussed digital infrastructure, cloud operating systems, Wuying, and IoT with 5G, alongside cloud-native databases, big-data computing and AI systems. Human-resources specialist Zhang Lingbo introduced corporate culture and social-responsibility practices.
Generative-image experience
During an interactive session, delegates tried the Tongyi Wanxiang image-generation model, supplying keywords and observing generated pictures. The original Chinese account misspelled the name as 通义万向; it is standardised here to 通义万相 using Alibaba Cloud’s 2023 announcement. This records a historical demonstration, without treating it as independently evaluated teaching effectiveness.
Other enterprise visits
Delegates also visited Tianjin Motor Dies Co., Ltd. and other enterprises during the workshop. The original account viewed these exchanges as a basis for deeper China–Southeast Asia vocational-education cooperation; this remains an outlook on cooperation.
Sources and further reading
The original site archive is dated 30 September 2023; the institute’s source page is dated 31 October. Both are retained and do not establish precise dates for each enterprise visit. The workshop overview separately covers the wider training, cases and panel; this report retains the enterprise visits’ distinct content. Learning materials are available in the courses and resource centre.
Original link: https://aiedchair.bnu.edu.cn/news-6174-en/
