Vice Minister of Education Wang Guangyan addressed two key parallel forums at the 2025 World Digital Education Conference in Wuhan, delivering remarks on “Lifelong Learning for All: Digital Empowerment for Scalable and Personalized Learning” and “Digital Education Security and Ethics: Challenges, Consensus, and Actions,” respectively.

Wang underscored China’s commitment to building a lifelong learning society by promoting inclusive, accessible, and on-demand education through digital transformation. He outlined the MOE’s vision for a wide-ranging, integrated lifelong education system supported by the Smart Education of China platform. He listed a number of future plans for realizing this vision, including enhancing content quality, expanding the national open university and senior education systems, and improving mechanisms like the national academic credit bank and systems for accrediting learning outcomes.

Wang also emphasized the need for shared global platforms to enable mutual course recognition and credit transfers, thereby contributing to a digitally empowered global lifelong learning community.

On digital ethics and safety, Wang stressed the importance of consolidating education’s moral foundations in the face of rapid technological change. He called for joint action to establish ethical safeguards in AI-powered education, including robust data protection across the entire data lifecycle and a strong cybersecurity infrastructure. He said that China advocates for open and secure digital education ecosystems that ensure the responsible development and equitable use of educational technologies worldwide.

The parallel meetings drew experts and policymakers from around the globe.