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• Promote the Transformation and out the major tasks in the future work
Upgrading of Education Informatisation. from 10 different perspectives. These
In order to meet the needs of education documents offered fundamental
reform and development in the guidance to promote the transformation
information era, relevant departments and upgrading of education
of the Chinese government formulated informatisation in China, and also
documentation such as Education provided a guide for the related practice
Informatisation during the Period of “the and theoretical study of distance higher
Thirteenth Five-Year” Plan (2016) and the education in China. In March 2021, the
Education Informatisation 2.0 Action Plan Ministry of Education issued The Circular
(2018). Key tasks have been strategically on Strengthening the Informatisation of
deployed and the future development Educational Management in the New
trends of education informatisation have Era. It is proposed to “use the new
been outlined. These documents focused generation of information technology
on exploring new teaching models based to improve the level of digitalization,
on information technology, developing networking and intelligence of
new internet-based education service educational management, and to support
models, and exploring new models of the modernization of educational
education governance in the information governance system and governance
era with the goal of realising a three- ability with informationisation”. In
fold transformation. The first is to move July 2021, the Ministry of Education,
from the development, application, and together with other six governmental
service of education-specific resources departments, issued The Guidance on
to the development, application, and Promoting the Construction of New
service of general resources. The second Educational Infrastructure to Building a
is to move from improving the application High-quality Education Support System,
capacity of information technology to requiring to speed up the construction
improving the information literacy of of new educational infrastructure with
teachers and students. The third is to new development concepts and with
move from integrated development to informationisation as the core. By 2025,
the innovative development of education a new educational infrastructure system
informatisation (Lei, 2018). with optimized structure, intensive
efficiency, safety and reliability will be
In order to further implement Education basically formed, providing a digital base
Informatisation during the Period of for the development of high-quality
“the Thirteenth Five-Year” Plan and the education. This series of programmatic
Education Informatisation 2.0 Action documents provide theoretical and
Plan, the Ministry of Education issued practical guidance for the transformation
Key Points of Education Informatisation and development of open and distance
and Network Security in 2019, mapping education in China, and also provide the
focus for the work ahead.

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