China's Ministry of Education launches nationwide teacher AI literacy training

On October 10, 2026, China's Ministry of Education held an on-site meeting in Beijing on AI-enabled teacher development. According to CCTV News, the ministry upgraded and relaunched the Teacher Development Center on the National Smart Education Platform and, at the same time, launched a full-coverage training program on AI literacy for teachers. The upgraded center now includes an AI literacy section that brings together AI learning resources, smart tools, and research communities to support teachers' self-directed learning and the full-coverage training effort.

As the first lesson of that training, the ministry invited frontline teachers, school principals, and education bureau heads to take part in an immersive, scenario-based demonstration. The session showed how AI can be applied across the whole chain of pre-class, in-class, and after-class work, including lesson preparation, classroom teaching, academic assessment, teaching research and reflection, and school governance. The stated aim is to help teachers move from learning about AI to using it and then to creating with it.

The report also noted that in April this year, the Ministry of Education and four other departments proposed reforming teacher training so that frontier technologies such as AI are incorporated into the curriculum and knowledge system, and that AI be included in teacher qualification exams and certification. Smart education projects would also be established within national and provincial teaching achievement awards. The stated goal is that by 2030, deep integration of AI and education will have basically taken shape, with a vertically connected and horizontally linked system of AI education across all stages of schooling and general AI literacy education across society. Public information currently stops at the launch of the training and the opening of the AI literacy section.