Shanghai Songjiang District Issues 15th Five-Year Education Plan, Sets 100% Coverage for AI-Enabled School-Based Teacher Training

The Songjiang District Education Bureau in Shanghai issued the district's 15th Five-Year Education Development Plan on September 15, 2026, aiming to build a high-quality education system aligned with the modern Songjiang of science, culture and ecology by 2030. The plan sets digital education targets including 100% coverage of smart teaching environments, digital teaching resources, qualified teacher digital teaching ability, and AI-enabled school-based teacher training. It also calls for advancing STEM education and gradually ensuring every primary school has at least one science teacher with a master's degree in a science or engineering field.

This is a rare district-level five-year education plan that writes 100% coverage of AI-enabled school-based teacher training as a quantified target, directly constraining the pace of teacher training, smart teaching environment and digital resource development in Songjiang's primary and secondary schools, with verifiable guidance for teacher training arrangements, school procurement and product selection. The two most direct effects: schools in the district must achieve full coverage of teacher digital teaching ability and AI school-based training by 2030, giving education product suppliers clear district-level procurement and training demand; the science teacher staffing requirement will change recruitment and training structures for primary school science teachers. The limitation is that this is a district-level document, and implementation progress, funding arrangements and acceptance standards are not given in the original text. Songjiang primary and secondary schools must reach 100% coverage of AI-enabled school-based teacher training by 2030, adjusting teacher training and assessment arrangements. The requirement that every primary school have at least one science teacher with a master's degree in science or engineering will change recruitment and training structures for primary school science teachers in the district.