For Future Era Education

I. Company Profile:
Guokai For Future (Beijing) Education Technology Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned enterprise of the Open University of China, specializing in integrated digital learning services for the education sector. Its business covers the development of digital learning resources, educational software development, overall informatization solutions for institutions, and multi-level teaching content training and service output, making it an innovative education technology company.
Since its establishment, the company has consistently emphasized product innovation and self-developed R&D, and holds a radio and television program production and operation license. It has undertaken projects including the "National Modern Distance Education Resource Repository Construction" project (Ministry of Education, 2003), the "Network Education Digital Learning Resource Center Construction" project (Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance, 2008), the 11th Five-Year Plan research topic "Sharing Mechanisms and Technical Implementation of Node Repository Resources in the National Modern Distance Education Resource Repository" (Ministry of Education, 2007), and the Ministry of Education's Chinese Classics Recitation Online Special Training, among multiple ministerial-level projects and research topics. The company has developed the *digital learning resource public service system "National Digital Learning Resource Center," consisting of a central center and 255 sub-centers across 31 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions nationwide in industries, institutions, and training organizations. It is responsible for the daily construction and maintenance of the "National Digital Learning Resource Center" system. Through building and maintaining the "National Digital Learning Resource Center (NERC)" system, it provides resource integration and sharing services for higher education, vocational education, continuing education, community education, elderly education, and other educational fields.
II. Core Competitive Advantages:
The company has a professional team for digital resource research, development, and production, and has established 6 digital learning resource R&D centers, 7 digital learning resource R&D bases, 2 virtual simulation R&D bases, and 2 training bases nationwide. It possesses comprehensive development capabilities covering instructional design, recording, production, and quality inspection of various digital learning resources, forming standardized production processes and large-scale production capacity. It has integrated more than 67,000 digital course resources, over 371,000 media resources, with a total capacity of 60.5TB. The digital learning resources developed and produced by the company comply with international AICC/SCORM standards and domestic CELTS standards. It develops and produces various types of resources, such as AR/VR virtual simulation courses, online courses, micro-courses, all-media digital textbooks, and mobile courses. It has formed thematic resource repository products suitable for regular higher education, vocational education, continuing education, community education, rural education, and training for Party members, cadres, and civil servants. Hundreds of institutions have benefited, with a beneficiary population of 35 million.
The company is committed to building intelligent teaching environments and informatized learning environments for educational institutions at all levels and of all types, and promoting the deep integration of information technology with education and teaching. Relying on the National Digital Learning Resource Center, it provides digital learning integrated solutions, customized development and integration of educational informatization software and hardware, and digital resource production tools to educational institutions at all levels and of all types.
III. Participation in Public Welfare:
1. In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to spread across the country, touching the heart of every Chinese person. To implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's requirements of "standing together, scientific prevention and control, and targeted measures" to win the battle against the pandemic, our company began inviting experts in relevant fields on January 28 to participate in course planning, script writing, and review, and worked overnight through all processes to produce "COVID-19 Prevention and Control Public Welfare Micro-courses." This series consists of 60 micro-courses, delivering scientific prevention and control knowledge to the public in a micro-course format suitable for internet dissemination. On February 1, the first batch of 3 public welfare micro-courses on virus prevention and control, including "Understanding the Novel Coronavirus," went online for public service, and by February 13, all 60 scientific epidemic prevention micro-courses were online.
From the outset of the "Scientific Epidemic Prevention Micro-courses" project, our company set the direction of fully public welfare, completely free, and serving the whole society, and launched the "Scientific Epidemic Prevention Micro-courses" gifting initiative. More than 450 institutions of various types applied for use, including institutions affiliated with central government ministries, institutions affiliated with provincial and municipal authorities, institutions under the Armed Police, institutions under central state-owned enterprises, regular universities, institutions in the Open University and Radio and Television University systems, secondary and higher vocational colleges, grassroots community education institutions, social training institutions, and primary and secondary schools, distributed across the country. As of April 14, 2020, the courses had been viewed 12 million times.
2. Our company participated in the "Wisdom-Rich Classroom" rural project led by the Department of Language Application Management of the Ministry of Education, providing technical support to address practical problems in impoverished areas such as poor network conditions, difficulties in delivering high-quality learning resources, and insufficient data support for poverty alleviation.
The "Wisdom-Rich Classroom" was designed and developed by our company, integrating internet intelligent transmission, local storage applications, and wireless hotspot mobile phone services. It features dual high-capacity storage and dual-band WiFi, supports cross-device connection and offline learning, breaks through network technical constraints in impoverished areas, and meets various learning modes including centralized learning, mobile learning, offline learning, and online learning. Its flexible hardware access design enables the box to interconnect with mobile phones, computers, televisions, projectors, broadcasting equipment, and other devices.
At the same time, based on the regional and cultural differences of different impoverished areas, and in light of local needs for industrial development, labor export, and tourism services, our company develops or integrates various high-quality education poverty alleviation resources that meet local development needs, including Mandarin learning, vocational skills, ideological and political education, rural education, early childhood education, compulsory education, and cultural life. To date, nearly 400 Mandarin learning micro-courses and more than 8,000 courses and resources for farmers and herdsmen have been completed.