In the recently announced "Top 100 Chinese Poverty Alleviation Enterprises in 2019" by the Internet Weekly, TAL Education Group was selected for its "AI Teacher Smart Education, Assisting in Popularizing Mandarin in Ethnic Minority Areas" project.

Poverty alleviation starts with education, and education starts with language. As the only education company selected, TAL Education Group's AI Teacher project has attracted a lot of attention. Since 2018, TAL Education Group has been implementing the AI teacher teaching system in the Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Zhaojue County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Using a "bilingual + picture" format to help local children learn Mandarin from an early age, by the end of 2019, it had covered nearly 80,000 students and more than 2,000 teachers.

In the view of Wan Yiting, CEO of TAL Education Group, artificial intelligence can play a significant role in the supply-side of education poverty alleviation. Through artificial intelligence, classrooms can become high-quality, light-burden, efficient, and personalized. More people will feel the power of this technology's goodwill.

In fact, TAL Education Group has been making efforts in promoting educational progress through technology. Currently, TAL Education Group has more than 6,000 R&D personnel, with an annual research and development investment of over ten billion yuan, and has become the construction unit of the national new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform for smart education.

In the fight against the epidemic, TAL Education Group's AI teacher teaching system continued to assist Yi students in learning Mandarin. At the same time, TAL Education Group's online school, Xueersi Online School, provided free live broadcast classes to 13,177 local students. Next, TAL Education Group will promote the AI teacher Mandarin teaching system in more ethnic minority areas such as the Baoan and Dongxiang ethnic groups in Gansu, and the Kazakh and Uighur ethnic groups in Xinjiang.