China's First AI Middle-Platform Maturity Standard Takes Effect, Co-Drafted by a K12 Education Provider
A Chinese industry standard that gives companies a common yardstick for judging how mature an AI middle platform really is took effect on November 1. YD/T 7115-2026, formally titled "Artificial intelligence — Key foundational technologies — Assessment method for AI middle-platform application maturity," was approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on July 15 and filed through the China Communications Standards Association.
The standard sets three maturity tiers and scores platforms across six capability domains: basic resources (computing, storage, network and data), AI development (data processing, model training, deployment and inference), AI services (model serving and governance), business applications (component and workflow management), operations and maintenance, and organisation and management. MIIT's official explainer frames the document as filling a gap — until now, enterprises shopping for or building an AI platform had no shared basis for assessing whether it could actually support AI at scale, only feature lists that were hard to compare.
What makes the drafting list notable for the education sector is who helped write it. Among the more than 30 co-drafting organisations — a group that includes the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Baidu, China Telecom, H3C, China Guangfa Bank, Postal Savings Bank of China and Changan Automobile — Sichuan Qiming Daren Technology Co. is the only basic-education company, and its general manager, Luo Yongqiang, is named among the individual drafters.
Qiming Daren, founded in Chengdu in 2022, is a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Tianli International Holdings (1773.HK), whose K12 arm operates more than 60 schools across 19 provincial-level regions with over 150,000 enrolled students. For the six months to February 28, 2026, the group reported revenue of RMB 2.14 billion, up 14.2% year on year, and profit of RMB 471 million, up 21%.
The company's education product is the "Tianli Qiming AI Study Companion," a vertical large language model that passed Sichuan province's generative AI service filing in June 2025. Company materials and state media coverage describe it as the first education-specific model cleared for campus-scale deployment in China. Its products run across teaching, learning, practice, testing, evaluation and administration — supporting lesson planning, in-class questioning, homework and learning-analytics dashboards used by teachers and principals.
On scale, the company says its systems are deployed in over 150 schools across 24 provincial-level regions, serving more than 300,000 students and teachers, with 50-plus standardised teaching workflows and 50-plus items of core intellectual property. It also holds national high-tech enterprise status and a Sichuan "specialised and sophisticated" enterprise designation.
The standard matters beyond one vendor. China's school-AI market has moved from pilots into procurement, and districts are increasingly asked to justify purchases against frameworks that measure platform capability rather than demo quality — a pressure familiar to education buyers in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia, where no comparable assessment standard exists. For AI vendors selling into schools, being able to point to a certified maturity tier could become a procurement advantage, and involvement in writing the rubric is a useful credential.
Qiming Daren is scheduled to exhibit at the GET2026 education technology conference in Beijing on November 25-26, where it will present the model and its classroom deployments; the company's conference preview was the original source for this report.
The standard sets three maturity tiers and scores platforms across six capability domains: basic resources (computing, storage, network and data), AI development (data processing, model training, deployment and inference), AI services (model serving and governance), business applications (component and workflow management), operations and maintenance, and organisation and management. MIIT's official explainer frames the document as filling a gap — until now, enterprises shopping for or building an AI platform had no shared basis for assessing whether it could actually support AI at scale, only feature lists that were hard to compare.
What makes the drafting list notable for the education sector is who helped write it. Among the more than 30 co-drafting organisations — a group that includes the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Baidu, China Telecom, H3C, China Guangfa Bank, Postal Savings Bank of China and Changan Automobile — Sichuan Qiming Daren Technology Co. is the only basic-education company, and its general manager, Luo Yongqiang, is named among the individual drafters.
Qiming Daren, founded in Chengdu in 2022, is a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Tianli International Holdings (1773.HK), whose K12 arm operates more than 60 schools across 19 provincial-level regions with over 150,000 enrolled students. For the six months to February 28, 2026, the group reported revenue of RMB 2.14 billion, up 14.2% year on year, and profit of RMB 471 million, up 21%.
The company's education product is the "Tianli Qiming AI Study Companion," a vertical large language model that passed Sichuan province's generative AI service filing in June 2025. Company materials and state media coverage describe it as the first education-specific model cleared for campus-scale deployment in China. Its products run across teaching, learning, practice, testing, evaluation and administration — supporting lesson planning, in-class questioning, homework and learning-analytics dashboards used by teachers and principals.
On scale, the company says its systems are deployed in over 150 schools across 24 provincial-level regions, serving more than 300,000 students and teachers, with 50-plus standardised teaching workflows and 50-plus items of core intellectual property. It also holds national high-tech enterprise status and a Sichuan "specialised and sophisticated" enterprise designation.
The standard matters beyond one vendor. China's school-AI market has moved from pilots into procurement, and districts are increasingly asked to justify purchases against frameworks that measure platform capability rather than demo quality — a pressure familiar to education buyers in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia, where no comparable assessment standard exists. For AI vendors selling into schools, being able to point to a certified maturity tier could become a procurement advantage, and involvement in writing the rubric is a useful credential.
Qiming Daren is scheduled to exhibit at the GET2026 education technology conference in Beijing on November 25-26, where it will present the model and its classroom deployments; the company's conference preview was the original source for this report.
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