Huawei is a renowned company now recognized around the world. Over more than three decades, it has grown from a Chinese start-up that developed alongside the nation as it stepped onto the international stage, into a global powerhouse and industry leader. What sets Huawei apart is not only its tireless pursuit of technological innovation and industrial breakthroughs, but its commitment to supporting universities and cultivating talent. It is no surprise the company has broken new ground and made extraordinary achievements in these areas over the years.
China's Ministry of Education (MOE) established the University Computer Course Teaching Steering Committee as part of its efforts to promote basic computer education in universities. The Committee's members are experts in the field of computer science from dozens of universities across China. They aspire to bring more and more university students into the world of computer science. The committee also aims to make computer science as popular as fields like higher mathematics, chemistry, physics, and biology, and to democratize computer skills as a form of basic literacy available to all.
Maintaining a focus on both theory and practice is crucial to these goals, as this is how we can achieve unity between knowledge and action. We need to be constantly looking at how to more closely combine knowledge learned with society's needs and the capabilities needed for practical application. This calls for meaningful integration between projects, platforms, resources, and teachers.
But this is easier said than done. Neither universities nor enterprises can do this alone. Instead, a collaborative university-plus-business approach is needed to steer both parties towards the same goals and facilitate mutual empowerment. Huawei has been exploring different ways to collaborate with universities in order to popularize education in computer infrastructure and related fundamental skills and capabilities.
This has created an opportunity for the Committee and Huawei to work together to develop new courses, train new instructors, and build new practice platforms. The collaboration so far has provided immense value for the ICT ecosystem by nurturing a new pipeline of professionals. This is especially important for the nation as we've made building a self-developed, self-reliant computing ecosystem a top priority.
This collaborative approach has proven feasible and necessary. Our collaboration has not only promoted computer education and improved wide-scale computer literacy among students, but also resulted in the development of new basic computer courses that reflect the latest technological advancements. In addition, these teaching materials have been widely applied in the education of computer knowledge and the training of various types of talent at all levels. The collaboration has been unquestionably productive. We have also been able to expand to other programs of study beyond computer science. This indicates that industry-education collaboration is a feasible way to meet real-world requirements, and is suitable for promotion to the larger community.
Moving forward, the Committee will deepen collaboration with the Huawei ICT Academy. There is so much more to explore in this collaboration: We can create teaching materials, especially materials focusing on digitalization, where we can make full use of AI and foundation model technologies to improve teaching methods and the presentation of teaching resources. We can build experiment platforms that combine theory with practice and facilitate industry-education collaboration. We can help improve students' basic capabilities and literacy in the context of an intelligent world, and we can explore new frontiers in training the next generation of teachers.
This is an era full of challenges but also opportunities. We need to deepen collaboration between industry and education, further engage industry in education, and put theory to the test through practice. We need to build synergies between all elements within our ecosystem. This is the only way to innovate more broadly, more deeply, and more productively.
This is exactly where the Committee and industry leaders like Huawei are heading. Closer collaboration between industry and education will help better equip universities to cultivate tomorrow's computer talent.
