USED leads delegation to visit Zhejiang (with photographs)
USED leads delegation to visit Zhejiang (with photographs)
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The Under Secretary for Education, Dr Sze Chun-fai, led a delegation to visit Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, yesterday (May 26) to meet with native officers and visit native faculties and innovation and expertise enterprises, with a view to selling exchanges between Zhejiang and Hong Kong in AI schooling.
The delegation contains about 30 members from the schooling and AI industries, together with members of the Committee on Professional Development of Teachers and Principals, representatives from greater schooling establishments, schooling skilled our bodies, Cyberport and the Hong Kong Productivity Council, principals of major, secondary and particular faculties, and a Legislative Council Member from the schooling sector.
Dr Sze and the delegation first arrived on the Zhejiang Education Technology Center yesterday, the place they met with officers from the Department of Education of Zhejiang Province to study their methods and achievements in selling AI schooling. He mentioned that Hong Kong strives to set up a mechanism during which technological innovation and expertise cultivation help one another, fostering built-in improvement of schooling, expertise and expertise, in order to improve the general effectiveness of the nationwide innovation system. He added that Hangzhou’s main expertise within the integration of AI schooling and innovation and expertise offers priceless insights for Hong Kong’s future introduction of the Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools and the development of academic innovation.
This morning (May 27), the delegation visited the Innovation Practice Base of Robotics and Intelligent Equipment at Zhejiang University to be taught concerning the college’s expertise in cultivating college students’ digital literacy and its interdisciplinary analysis achievements in robotics and clever tools.
The delegation then visited BrainCo, certainly one of Hangzhou’s six famend innovation and expertise enterprises (the Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou). Members of the delegation listened to a presentation by firm representatives on the most recent progress in brain-computer interface expertise analysis and improvement, in addition to its functions within the schooling subject.
This afternoon, the delegation visited Hangzhou Pingyao High School, an AI schooling base in Hangzhou. They toured the campus services, together with a science and innovation centre constructing, and skilled AI lessons that includes classroom robots and drones. They additionally engaged in in-depth exchanges with college representatives on AI curriculum design, philosophy, and administration expertise.
Dr Sze departed for Hong Kong right this moment. Other members of the delegation will proceed to visit different native faculties and innovation and expertise enterprises there, and can conclude their visit and return to Hong Kong on May 29.
Ends/Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Issued at HKT 17:22
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