AdvanceHealth school constructionTo accelerate the spread of ai literacy education throughout the school cycle to better respond to changes in the school-age population at the recent national conference on education in 2026, a series of priority initiatives were identified for the current yearEducation reformCore directions for development, mapping out educationQuality developmentNew blueprint。
The year 2026 marks the beginning of the “fifty-fifty-fifty five” programme and the crucial beginning of the three-year plan of action for the building of a strong nation. More recently, the national conference on education was organized to identify priorities for the current year in the field of education and to send new signals about educational reform and development。
To respond better to changes in the school-age population
Population is the core variable in education resource allocation. This year's national conference on education recommended that the changes in the school-age population be better addressed and that resources for basic education be optimized。
At present, the size and distribution of the school-age population is undergoing a marked change, with a marked “waiver” characteristic — the cyclical peaks and valleys caused by fluctuations in the birth of the population. This places greater demands on the dynamic adaptation of education resources. Data from the ministry of education indicate that the population of high school age will continue to grow over the coming period and is expected to peak in 2029. At the same time, with the increase in the level of education and the changing demand for talent in society, the population's expectations for high-quality general high school education have increased, and the development of general high school will face the twin challenges of a sustained increase in the school-age population and a sustained increase in the level of coverage。
In this context, forward-looking and institutional innovations are being actively pursued in all regions to continuously expand and optimize the availability of degrees. Among them, zhejiang has been systematically exploring ways to respond to changes in the school-age population. “the resident population, the birth rate, and the urbanization rate are three key variables that influence the evolution of the school-age population in our province. Based on these variables, we predict that the population of all school age groups in the province will peak. At present, the pre-primary and primary school-age population has peaked and the number of persons of secondary and high-school-age population continues to grow.” zhejiang provincial council's deputy secretary-general for education, chen chun-rae, has integrated the seven areas of “mobilization, harmonization, improvement, excellence, integration and smallness” around key resources, such as schools, degrees and teachers, covering layout, resource continuity, degree expansion, civil integration, small school optimization, teacher development and small classization, with a view to gradually developing a supply system that is adapted to population fluctuations。
In the face of the upcoming peak in the enrolment of the upper secondary school population, specific responses have been launched in several provinces. For example, guangdong plans to increase the number of general high school degrees by 200,000 in 2026, including by expanding, connecting and building new schools; hubei continues to promote the expansion of high school degrees; wuhan city plans to increase the number of quality high school degrees by 8,000, on the basis of 8,000 new high school degrees in 2025; yangyang city plans to increase the number of general high school degrees by 3,000; and xen city plans to increase the number of comprehensive high school degrees by 3,000。
Promoting healthy schools
The physical and psychological well-being of the students holds the promise of the future of the nation and the nation as well. The national conference on education, 2026, emphasized the promotion of healthy schools for the physical and mental health and comprehensive development of students。
During the “1455” period, the education system continued to deepen the concept of “health first” education by promoting moral and intellectual excellence, actively defusing the reality of “small glasses” “fat “and mental health,” and striving to make students more “dreaming and strong in their hearts”。
In practice, many schools actively explore effective pathways to health promotion. In sichuan, the university of electronic technology-affiliated experimental primary school provides students with a full range of physical education skills, “action 1+1+n燎”, which helps students acquire a jumper skills, a ball type skill or other special sports skills; in hunan, the shunxi-tur family of the hmong autonomous province of soljiang primary school, in collaboration with the swim club, invites club swimming coaches to serve as part-time sports teachers and to teach children swimming lessons; and in henan, the seventh junior high school in zhengzhou introduced traditional physical fitness programmes such as shaolin kung and eight bands into the classroom to enable students to feel the charism of chinese culture while they are strong... Schools in all regions are actively implementing the “health first” education concept, leading students to develop a health perspective and effectively promoting the construction of healthy schools。
Towards 2026, many new initiatives continued to be launched in the construction of healthy schools -
Beijing's recent launch of the beijing school family community community building implementation programme, which proposes to fully establish a “religious association” in all districts of the city by 2026, to build a new and in-depth educational environment that will effectively serve the overall physical and mental well-being of students. The programme also launched the integrated smart system of family education guidance services of the “kyo gang”, which focuses on the physical and mental well-being of students, provides professional support for 7 x 24 hours online and individualized. Hebei will implement the upgrading of classrooms and sports sites in primary and secondary schools this year, plans to complete the renovation of 50,000 eye-friendly classrooms, the upgrading of 500 primary and secondary school sports sites and the conduct of spinal bend screenings for 10 million primary and secondary school students throughout the province. From philosophy to action, from hardware adaptation to service upgrading, a series of new initiatives are building solid support for the physical and mental health of students。
Accelerating universal education for all
This year's national conference on education called for a solid promotion of artificial intelligence-enabled education to accelerate the spread of artificial intelligence literacy education throughout the entire school cycle and to stimulate the development of a dynamic and dynamic nation。
“cultural education” refers to the introduction of artificial intelligence education throughout the learning stages, breaking down barriers between traditional stages of education and creating an organically linked and collaborative educational system. Using the frontier, openness, cross-cutting characteristics of artificial intelligence itself, early identification and more efficient and targeted development of students。
At the international level, many countries have identified artificial intelligence as a key indicator of national competitiveness and have introduced corresponding plans, such as the united states “ai for k-12”, the eu “digital education action plan (2021-2027)” and the singapore “ai singapore” project。
In my country, many programmes have been actively introduced to promote the integration of artificial intelligence and education -
Jiangsu has recently published the "advisible intelligence plus" programme of action for jiangsu province, which explicitly proposes the implementation of actions for artificial intellectual empowerment education, the promotion of new models of collaborative learning among intellectual partners, intelligent teachers and others, and the strengthening of the development and application of large models of education and of major models of disciplines. In the area of applied innovation, jiangsu has developed six science intelligence bodies and 20 teaching intelligence bodies for primary and secondary schools, which have been put into use in the evaluation of tests. In the area of human resources development, jiangsu has developed a continuous system of training: at the basic education level, a manual intelligence curriculum guide has been issued and a digital resource centre for artificial intelligence education at the provincial level has been launched; at the vocational and higher education levels, the specialization of disciplines has been optimized; 36 undergraduate colleges and 53 higher-level colleges have been promoted; and 15 provincial institutes of artificial intelligence have been set up。
The guizhou programme of action for the advancement of artificial intelligence education (2026-2030), based on the foundations of the national large data integrated experimental zone, promotes the integration of artificial intelligence with teaching in depth and creates the guizhou model of intellectual education. In line with the principle of “enabling, synergizing”, the province plans to build a provincial platform and a unique resource base for the sharing of the computing of artificial intelligence education and to develop 100 provincial pilot digital transformation schools by 2027; by 2030, it will have built an integrated system of artificial intelligence development covering primary, secondary and vocational schools, with a view to achieving universal access to artificial intelligence education and promoting the scaling-up of large models of home-grown learning。
In recent days, eight departments, including the chongqing city education council, have jointly published the chongqing city action programme for the promotion of artificial intelligence + education, focusing on the integration of artificial intelligence with education and the construction of a new ecology of intellectual education. The programme focuses on the development of an "advanced smart plus" learning landscape, promoting smart applications such as "ai associates", and providing individualized services such as self-adapted learning path planning, learning difficulty smart analysis and counselling. According to the objectives set out in the programme, by the end of 2026, the coverage of the new generation of educational intelligence terminals and the use of intelligent bodies in chongqing city will have reached more than 70 per cent; by the end of 2027, the coverage will have increased to more than 80 per cent, and 150 schools with innovative features of “advanced intelligence + education” will have been built, promoting the chongqing west's leading and leading position in the country's level of development。
