White paper on China's smart education released at World Digital Education Conference

A white paper on China's smart education was released at the 2025 World Digital Education Conference, which concluded on Friday in the city of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.

The white paper showcases the progress and achievements made since the implementation of the national digital education strategy.

Data shows that the national smart education platform gathered high-quality digital educational resources, including over 110,000 resources for primary and secondary education, more than 11,300 online courses for vocational training, and 31,000 high-quality online courses for higher education, along with over 2,000 lifelong learning courses.

As of April 2025, the platform had registered over 164 million users, with visitors from more than 220 countries and regions.

The white paper indicates that 2025 will mark the beginning of a smart education era, with artificial intelligence fundamentally transforming educational content, teaching methods, governance, and the overall educational landscape to create a future-oriented system.

It highlights the importance of building future schools by deeply integrating intelligent technologies into management, services, and decision-making processes, thereby enhancing the modernization of school governance.

The white paper clearly states the goal of establishing overseas digital education learning centers, prioritizing the support for digital technology training in developing countries. It emphasizes the need to strengthen talent development and technical support to bridge the digital education gap and eliminate barriers to educational equality.

The Proposal for the Establishment of an International Digital Education Standards Framework and Large Model for Education-Overall Reference Framework Alliance Standard were also released at the conference to promote international exchange and cooperation in digital education.

"The standards are vital for guiding the development of digital education. They not only provide essential support for this progress but also act as a driving force for collaboration among countries worldwide," said Shu Hua, deputy director of the Department of Science, Technology, and Information at the Ministry of Education.

White paper on China's smart education released at World Digital Education Conference

The United States cannot legitimize an operation that attacked Venezuela and captured its president, a Chinese scholar said Sunday.

On Saturday, the United States launched a large-scale strike on Venezuela, during which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were 'captured and flown out of Venezuela' according to a post by U.S. President Donald Trump on his Truth Social account.

Teng Jianqun, director of the Center for Diplomatic Studies at Hunan Normal University, said in an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN) that the aim of this operation is to take full control of Venezuela’s natural resources.

"I don't think the United States can legitimize this operation to take custody of the president of Venezuela. And also I don't think the United States can legitimize its any action in taking the oil reserves of that country. This is actually a very dangerous game played by the Trump administration. And of course, the United States would like to take full control of that country and to take full control of the natural resources, especially the large reserve of oil in Venezuela," said Teng.

Teng said Venezuela is not an isolated case but a common practice by the United States. The United States launched an invasion of Panama on Dec. 20, 1989, which continued until January 1990, with the stated objective of capturing Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega on charges of drug trafficking and organized crime.

"We still remember the so-called sentence of the former president of Panama in the late 1980s. And this time, the president of Venezuela will be under some judicial condition (judicial proceedings) for the so-called drug trafficking and some other crimes. So I think this is not a single case for the Venezuela country, but also this is actually a practice by the United States -- to use force, to use so-called justice under law against any leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean waters," he said.

US cannot legitimize operation against Venezuela: Chinese scholar