Students attend a class at Yan’an High School in Yan’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi province, Oct. 27, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua] Thanks to the internet, students from a middle school in Kangding, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan province, are able to attend classes conducted by teachers from Chengdu No. 7 High School, a prestigious high school elsewhere in the province. It takes more than three hours to drive from Kangding to Chengdu, but with the help of information technology, students can answer their teachers’ questions in less than a minute. The interaction is just part of China’s broader efforts to promote digital education in recent years, in a bid to develop more equitable and higher-quality education, while accelerating modernization in the sector. The World Digital Education Conference, which opened in Beijing on Monday, is expected to further promote the digitalization of education in China and inject new momentum into the global development of digital education. Upgraded facilities China has released multiple plans to better apply information technology to education, with the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China calling for the digitalization of education and the building of a society and country of learning in which lifelong […]