With the formal implementation of the new "Private Education Promotion Law", the country and the government once again offer a "stimulant" for private education. How to promote the integration of public and private education through educational informatization has become an important growth point and reform focus in educational development. At the ongoing 2018 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, education has once again become a focus of the conference, with the "New Policies for Private Education" forum scheduled for April 11th.

It is understood that Bai Yunfeng, President of TAL Education Group, will speak at the "New Policies for Private Education" forum on the afternoon of April 11th, along with Devang Vipin KHAKHAR, President of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Sun Yefang Economic Foundation Chairman, Li Jiange, President of Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Xiang Bing, Dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and Yang Bin, Vice President of Tsinghua University, discussing the mission and responsibility of education in the new era.

On April 9th, Bai Yunfeng, President of TAL Education Group, was interviewed by multiple media outlets at the official media communication meeting of the forum, discussing the training of global talents under the background of the Belt and Road Initiative. During the interview, Wu Xiaowei, head of VIPX at VIPKID, revealed that a new online English brand, VIPX, will be launched soon.

Cultivating children with global competence

Friedman pointed out in "The World is Flat" that human society has entered the era of globalization 3.0, where every individual will become the key to global competition following the nation and multinational corporations. With the increasingly close connection between China and the world, Chinese children will face the pressure of global talent competition, making it necessary for them to re-examine English education. Wu Xiaowei mentioned in the interview at Boao, "Under the background of the Belt and Road Initiative and the global environment, it is necessary to re-evaluate English education if you want to secure a place in future international competition, because language communication is a prerequisite for everything." She emphasized, "Moreover, English is not just a tool, but also an ability. It gives young people the courage to explore the world and prepares them to meet the challenges of the future, enabling them to have global competence."

Wu Xiaowei, head of VIPX at VIPKID

Based on these considerations, TAL Education Group's well-known brand, VIPKID, announced at Boao that it will soon launch a new online English brand, VIPX. It will collaborate with the National Geographic Society, introducing original teaching materials from American elementary schools and developing all literature and general knowledge courses, aiming to achieve "authentic American classrooms, bringing the world into our homes", helping children become future global citizens with bilingual ability, integrated knowledge, thinking, and values.

During an interview at Boao, Wu Xiaowei, head of VIPKID, expressed, "In our English education, besides imparting knowledge, we also aim to cultivate in students a 'Chinese sentiment', 'international perspective', 'cultural awareness', 'thinking quality', 'humanistic literacy', and 'communication skills', empowering students to establish correct views on history, the nation, ethnicity, and culture, understand Chinese socialist culture, stand firm in a Chinese position, maintain cultural confidence, promote Chinese culture, and actively engage with people from diverse cultural backgrounds to build a community with a shared future for mankind, thus forming real global competence."

Using technology to promote inclusive education

It is reported that VIPX uses technology to enable Chinese students to have efficient access to original teaching materials, star foreign teachers from prestigious American schools, high-quality North American teachers, American classrooms, and synchronized American elementary school education goals and star assessments. At the same time, VIPX has also introduced the concept of a regular learning week, ensuring fixed one-on-one sessions with foreign teachers and multiple time slots for literature and general knowledge courses within the week, thus ensuring learning effectiveness through professional teacher guidance and increased immersion time, making high-quality educational resources accessible to a wider audience.

Bai Yunfeng, President of TAL Education Group

During the interview, Bai Yunfeng emphasized, "Online English education represented by VIPX is just one of the important initiatives of VIPKID to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, using technology to promote the rational allocation of quality global educational resources and advance future-oriented global talent development."

As a practitioner of "using technology to promote inclusive education", VIPKID has actively cooperated with public schools to enhance digitalization, promote deep integration between private and public education, create a new format of "technology + education", and help more students in second and third-tier cities and remote mountainous areas enjoy high-quality educational resources.

It is further known that VIPKID will continue to use the application of the internet and artificial intelligence technology to achieve a greater scale of inclusive education, thereby expanding the breadth and depth of education in China and playing an active role in addressing the uneven distribution of educational resources in China.