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AI literacy courses enter China's school curriculums

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China is rolling out AI literacy programs in cities across the country this autumn to integrate tech into school curriculums.

At a middle school in east China’s Jiangsu Province, students are writing computer programs to train their robots to recognize fruit. But it wasn’t easy.

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Liu Yanzhe, Student:

"We debugged the program many times and failed.But when the robot finally recognized the orange, we were all very happy. I realized image recognition is not magic. It is built on massive training data."

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Other schools are embedding AI into other subjects.

At Beijing National Day School, AI works as an on-demand assistant. These students are using it to research ancient stone arch bridges in Chinese class and to analyze city transformations in geography class.

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Song Yan, director, information center, Beijing National Day School:

"We let students experience working with AI while doing real tasks."

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Dou Wentao, politics teacher, Beijing National Day School:

"We first let students think on their own. Then they fill out a task sheet showing their thinking without AI. After that, AI helps them find solutions."

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China’s Ministry of Education says that by the year 2030, they aim to build a vertically integrated, full-stage AI education system.