Weekly snapshot of Chinese education news

Source: Xinhua| 2019-05-18 10:16:40|Editor: Li Xia
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BEIJING, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key education news from the past week:

-- More expectant rural doctors

China's medical colleges will enroll 6,700 rural students this year who will work for rural health centers in central and western China upon graduation.

With financing by the central government, the students will enjoy five-year free education in majors including clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Mongolian medicine, traditional Tibetan medicine and traditional Dai ethnic medicine.

-- Less screen time during teaching

East China's Shandong Province on Tuesday asked teachers to spend no more than 30 percent of teaching time using digital screens, as a move of the province, and the country at large, to combat nearsightedness, or myopia, among children and teenagers.

The government plan also required that teachers in kindergartens should not use televisions or projectors to teach for longer than 30 minutes at a time and the annual teaching time using these devices should be no longer than two hours each year.

-- AI in education

Minister of Education Chen Baosheng said that China will continue promoting the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in education to facilitate teaching and learning a variety of subjects.

China has issued several plans for the integrated development of AI and education and supporting the modernization of education with information technologies, Chen said at the ongoing International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education.

-- "Leader Plan" trains selected youth on rural vitalization

A total of 120 selected young people from China's rural areas have received training on rural vitalization at a Tsinghua University workshop under the "Leader Plan" co-sponsored by the China Charity Alliance, which concluded Friday.

They received a five-month online training session initiated in October 2018, involving around 2,600 outstanding rural young people mostly aged below 45, and were offered courses on rural tourism, community building, financial policies and e-commerce, before qualifying for a five-day Tsinghua workshop on improved thinking, technological innovation, design and research and development, brand marketing and field visits.

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