On October 27, 2024, the People's Government of Beijing Municipality announced that on October 26, 2024, the 'Beijing Education Artificial Intelligence Application Guidelines' were released, clarifying and standardizing the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in school education for teachers and students and explaining that it will be updated annually in line with technological progress and teaching needs.

Key provisions of the Guidelines

In particular, the Municipality outlined that the Guidelines define six key application areas and 29 typical scenarios, including 'intelligent' teaching, learning, education, research, and management assistance. The Municipality explained that AI technology should be used to assist students in personalized learning, research, and practice, and promote students' autonomous learning following a 'student-centered' approach.

Furthermore, the Municipality stated that it also started the construction of:

• high-quality AI datasets to develop an AI data platform, extract knowledge systems, professional terms, algorithmic rules, and expression logic with educational characteristics, as well as to provide data support for the implementation of large models in the field of education; and
• AI application test fields to form a general evaluation standard for intelligent education that conforms to the laws of education and teaching, accelerate the compliant access of AI large models in the field of education, and regularly conduct dynamic monitoring of AI products after they enter schools.

You can read the press release, only available in Chinese, here.