On January 22nd, 100tal Education Cloud reached a strategic cooperation with Alibaba Cloud, establishing their intention to cooperate in the cloud computing and big data fields within the education industry. The high-quality educational technology accumulation of the former and the advanced technology of the latter will be fully integrated to provide society with more high-quality educational services. This is an important breakthrough in the technological empowerment of education by leading domestic education technology companies and top internet companies.

"The 2030 education goals of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (to achieve inclusive, equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all) and the education situation in China call for the expansion and strengthening of existing partnerships involving multiple stakeholders. The cooperation between 100tal Education Cloud and Alibaba Cloud is an innovative move in response to these calls," said Bai Yunfeng, President of 100tal Education Group. He expressed that 100tal Education has always been committed to using technology to promote educational progress, innovating partnerships, and building an excellent educational ecosystem. 100tal Education, together with high-quality partners like Alibaba Cloud, will jointly build a new vision for the future of education.

"The impact of education on social development is far-reaching, and the combination of education and technology can create greater value for social development," said Hu Xiaoming, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud. The choice to cooperate with 100tal Education Cloud is due to their many years of deep cultivation in the field of education and their extensive reputation. In the future, we hope to continue to strengthen the cooperation and deepen resource integration with 100tal Education.

As a leading domestic education technology company, 100tal Education is committed to using technology to promote education with an annual research and development cost in the hundreds of millions. It has created a batch of deeply-rooted high-quality educational products and services, such as Xueersi, which is considered top-notch in the industry in terms of teacher training, teaching management, online and offline integration, online education, and philosophical culture. In recent years, the Ministry of Education has put forward new requirements for teaching in public schools and the national education informatization plan, encouraging the promotion of the integration of public and private education. As a representative brand in the industry, 100tal Education hopes to transport the education products and services that have been thoroughly verified and proven effective in the market into the system to promote the balanced development of educational resources. Thus, 100tal Education Cloud was born.

Today, the high-quality resources provided by 100tal Education Cloud have been promoted and used in over a hundred cities in Beijing, Hubei, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and other places. Some high-quality projects have been connected to the national education resources public service platform, covering millions of students in over a thousand public schools and accumulating a large amount of data in teaching, learning, training, and testing.

Yu Li, Vice President and General Manager of Education Cloud at 100tal Education, said that Alibaba Cloud's advanced cloud service capabilities can provide strong technical support for the education cloud and help build a more powerful business platform. For example, Alibaba Cloud's leading cloud storage space will aggregate 100tal Education's high-quality educational resources, and its powerful data analysis capabilities will help the education cloud explore the development demands of education in different regions, and the two sides will jointly promote the balanced and even personalized development of education.

At the same time, 100tal Education Cloud and Alibaba Cloud will also work together to empower education. In the view of Wang Xiaofei, General Manager of the Education Business Unit at Alibaba Cloud, in addition to strengthening cooperation with the public education system, 100tal Education Cloud and Alibaba Cloud will also jointly package IT basic capabilities, education products and services, and teacher capabilities as standardized capabilities for the education industry, opening these capabilities to over 12,000 K12 training institutions for primary and secondary schools offline, and jointly creating a new ecosystem for internet + education.

In addition, the two parties also intend to rely on the "Alibaba Innovation Center" and 100tal Education's "Future Star Principal Camp" to jointly explore and incubate unicorn companies in the vertical education industry, supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in the education industry.

Not long ago, 100tal Education launched the "Hope Online" education public welfare platform, bringing together resources from educational institutions, public welfare organizations, and volunteers to promote educational equity. In the future, Alibaba Cloud will also actively participate in the "Hope Online" public welfare platform, providing technical and data analysis support to promote educational supply-side reform and the balanced development of education through technology.