One of the favorite classes for Cheng Ning is the weekly information technology class. There she gets to experience painting and playing word games with AI robots. Cheng Ning and her classmates are from East China's Zhejiang Province. The province is one of the leaders to bring AI into classes of schools in China. Students have more chances to learn AI courses(课程).
To deepen the connection between AI and education, Zhejiang provides AI courses in primary and middle schools. It hopes to help students have a good foundation(基础) for their future studies.
Many cities in Zhejiang are connecting AI with education. In 2022, Hangzhou introduced an AI education platform (平台) from Tencent. Students can experience AI in class. For example, students can control AI robots as engineers on"Mars" to finish special tasks in the robot project.
Also, in Wenzhou, another city in Zhejiang, many schools have offered at least one AI course. Since 2023, Wenzhou has developed 700 AI education experimental schools. Most schools in Wenzhou have had a complete AI education teacher team. By the end of 2025, there will be 300 more experimental schools in Wenzhou.
AI courses will become more popular in primary and middle schools, and AI labs will be fully covered in every school in these cities and even across the province.