The Signing Ceremony for Nanjing Vocational College of Information Technology's "China-Africa Digital Technology Learning Supermarket" Project Featured at the 2026 World Digital Education Conference

On May 11–12, 2026, with the approval of the State Council, the 4th World Digital Education Conference, co-hosted by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, was grandly held in Hangzhou. With the theme AI + Education: Change, Development, and Governance, this conference is a high-level and highly influential international event in the global digital education field. More than 850 people, including government officials from China and abroad, representatives from international organizations, educational institutions, and the industrial sector, attended to discuss the development path of global digital education and deepen international educational exchange and cooperation. Vice President Han Zheng attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech, and Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng delivered a keynote speech, pointing the way for global digital education cooperation and governance.

Focusing on key topics such as the digital transformation of education, collaborative development of international education, and global skills talent cultivation, the conference released eight major achievements, including the China Smart Education Development Report (2025–2026), the Global Digital Education Development Index (2026), and the Hangzhou Initiative on AI in Education, establishing a world-class platform for digital education exchange and cooperation.

Hosted by Vice Minister of Education Xu Qingsen, Nanjing Vocational College of Information Technology signed a cooperation agreement with Mount Kenya University and Nanjing ZTE Xinyada Information Technology to jointly build the China-Africa Digital Technology Learning Supermarket project. This signing is an important achievement for NJCIT, leveraging a world-class high-end cooperation platform. It marks a new stage in NJCIT's international cooperation in vocational education with Africa, fully embodying NJCIT's mission and responsibility to serve the country's educational opening-up and the broader China-Africa cooperation framework, and effectively enhances NJCIT's international influence in the global vocational education field.

The three parties will leverage the complementary advantages of China-Africa vocational education resources, focusing on the joint cultivation of digital technology and skilled talents, and promote comprehensive alignment in areas such as curriculum systems, teaching resources, and practical training. NJCIT will take this cooperation as an opportunity to accelerate its internationalization strategy, promote the export of China's high-quality vocational education achievements and digital technology resources, continuously deepen China-Africa educational and cultural exchanges, and contribute vocational education's strength to building a fair, inclusive, and sustainable global digital education ecosystem.

Photo by Conference Organizing Committee

Text by Dai Yangzhi, Office of International Exchange and Cooperation

Reviewed by: Cao Xue, Office of International Exchange and Cooperation