Yesterday, TAL Education Group's Lightboat brand was officially launched. It integrates three sub-brands: Lightboat Graduate School Entrance Examination, Lightboat Test Preparation, and Lightboat Overseas Study, aiming to create a one-stop platform dedicated to young people's comprehensive improvement. At the launch event, Lightboat Graduate School Entrance Examination simultaneously released the "Same Boat Plan", which is dedicated to connecting users with graduate school entrance examination service institutions and addressing issues such as imbalance between supply and demand.

Dr. Wan Yiting, Executive President of TAL Education Group, stated that over the years, TAL has always attached great importance to leveraging its years of accumulation in the education field to actively support lifelong learning. "We are delighted to see that more and more young people have set lofty goals and hope to broaden their horizons and enrich themselves through various means such as postgraduate studies and overseas study."

In recent years, the number of college students has continued to grow. According to the progress of employment work for college graduates released by the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education on May 13, the total number of graduates from regular colleges and universities in 2021 was 9.09 million, an increase of 350,000 compared to the previous year.

The increasing number of graduates each year has led to changes in the employment environment and growing competition pressure. Young people with postgraduate entrance examination needs are facing problems such as opaque examination preparation information, lack of reliable guidance from institutions, and lack of high-quality application and tutoring services.

Lightboat of TAL will be committed to meeting the needs of young people to enhance their comprehensive competitiveness, eliminating the problem of opaque examination preparation information, and providing high-quality services to better accompany young people's growth. Wang Lei, the person in charge of Lightboat of TAL, said that Lightboat focuses on serving the young population, relying on the strong teaching and research team of TAL Education Group and combining advanced technological means to create comprehensive, transparent, professional, personalized, and scientifically efficient examination planning and online course tutoring services, helping young people enhance their comprehensive competitiveness and achieve their academic dreams.

Along with the launch of the Lightboat brand, Lightboat Graduate School Entrance Examination officially released the "Same Boat Plan". This plan aims to build a platform to connect the needs of users and cooperative institutions, providing users with precise services to enable them to study more efficiently; and to build a professional and healthy content platform, allowing cooperative institutions to gain more attention from target users and obtain more precise traffic. As of now, the "Same Boat Plan" has provided services to 200 institutions.

In addition to Lightboat Graduate School Entrance Examination, Lightboat Test Preparation and Lightboat Overseas Study have also made corresponding service and brand upgrades. Lightboat Test Preparation aims to help young people improve their language learning ability, deeply integrating language learning with TOEFL, IELTS, GRE, and GMAT examinations. Lightboat Overseas Study is dedicated to creating a professional, transparent, and efficient full-process overseas study service, providing young people with more detailed services through its self-developed overseas study application service system.

Currently, Lightboat Graduate School Entrance Examination has accumulated 23 million users; Lightboat Test Preparation has served 39 million users since 2019; and Lightboat Overseas Study has helped over 20,000 people successfully study abroad through its self-developed system.

For the future, Wang Lei stated that Lightboat of TAL will strengthen its three core businesses of postgraduate entrance examination, language training, and overseas study on the existing basis, continuously upgrade its products, further enhance service reputation, and become an accelerator for young people to enhance their comprehensive competitiveness.

Lightboat is setting sail and will provide young people with more diversified and interesting products and services. Wang Lei disclosed that Lightboat will conduct research on new vocational skills training for young people in the future. Making young people's work more valuable and their lives more interesting is the mission of Lightboat of TAL. In the future, Lightboat of TAL will join hands with young people and more institutions to set sail for new horizons and embark on a journey towards a bright future together.