Chinese City Qingyuan to Pilot 12-Year Through-Training From Fall 2027
The Guangdong city released a Student Healthy Growth Plan on September 28 that will let a first cohort of primary school entrants move from Grade 1 through high school without exam-based streaming, joining a shift already under way in Shanghai and Chengdu
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9/30/2026, 5:00:00 PM
Beijing Unveils 2026–2030 Education Plan, Targeting a Global AI-in-Education Hub
The capital’s five-year education blueprint sets 12 priority areas and 38 measures, from extending free education to building a world-leading "AI plus education" highland by 2035.
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9/29/2026, 8:00:00 PM
Henan Sets 2030 Goal of Universal AI Education in Primary and Secondary Schools
Four provincial departments have issued a joint implementation opinion with staged targets — 60% of schools delivering AI education effectively by 2028, full coverage by 2030 — and an explicit ban on turning AI into an exam-drill tool.
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9/29/2026, 6:30:00 PM
China to Add More Than 76,000 Undergraduate Places at Double First-Class Universities by 2030
The Ministry of Education says Double First-Class universities will expand undergraduate enrollment by over 76,000 places between 2027 and 2030, with priority given to AI and other strategic fields.
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9/25/2026, 8:00:00 PM
China’s Study Tour Market Heads for RMB 242.2 Billion, but Operators Say Profits Are Thin
Forecasts put China’s study travel sector at RMB 242.2 billion in 2026, up 13.6% — yet two-decade veterans say plaques and policy support no longer translate into orders.
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9/23/2026, 7:00:00 PM
iFlytek Institute and CAET Publish 2026 Blue Book on AI-Powered Future Classrooms
A new Chinese blue book sets out an eight-chapter framework for "future classrooms," drawing on 366 practice cases to map how AI should reshape teaching spaces, resources and assessment.
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9/22/2026, 6:30:00 PM
Beijing Releases 2026 AI-in-Education Guidelines With Three-Tier List on Where AI Is Banned, Limited or Encouraged
Beijing has issued the 2026 edition of its AI Application Guidelines for Education, adding prohibited-use, limited-use and encouraged-use lists and setting age-graded rules for how minors may use AI.
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9/18/2026, 5:00:00 PM
Shenzhen sets 2028 targets for AI in classrooms as part of city-wide action plan
The city’s new 2026–2028 AI action plan targets more than 90% adoption of smart terminals and agents, a core AI industry above RMB 300 billion, and a shift to human-AI collaborative, personalised teaching in schools.
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9/9/2026, 4:00:00 AM
New York City bans generative AI for 600,000 students through eighth grade
NYC Public Schools will impose a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI from 2K through grade 8, covering roughly two-thirds of enrollment in the largest US school district, while opening five tightly capped AI pilots for high schoolers.
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9/6/2026, 6:30:00 PM
Gansu puts AI on every school timetable: 8 class hours a year from autumn 2027
Northwest China’s Gansu province has issued a five-year "AI Plus Education" action plan that makes AI general education universal across K-12 from 2027, backed by a 40G education network, 100P of compute and 20 new university AI programmes by 2030.
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9/4/2026, 7:00:00 PM