Shanghai's 15th Five-Year Education Plan Sets Path for AI-Enabled Transformation

The Shanghai municipal government has issued its 15th Five-Year Plan for Education Development, aiming for breakthrough progress toward becoming an education powerhouse by 2030. The plan calls for AI-enabled transformation in education, supports schools in using intelligent teaching systems for lesson preparation, learning analysis, and homework management, and proposes lifelong-learning experience centers for AI. It also emphasizes stronger governance of AI use in education and the development of high-quality datasets and corpora.

The plan provides Shanghai with a policy framework for AI education over the next five years and directly affects the market direction of schools, teachers, and AI education companies. Schools will receive policy support to introduce intelligent teaching systems, changing lesson preparation, learning analysis, and homework management. Providers will need to meet data-governance and security requirements, advancing industry standardization.