On June 11, the Second Belt and Road Science and Technology Exchange Conference Artificial Intelligence Empowering Sustainable Development Forum was held in Chengdu. In response to the concept of "actively supporting artificial intelligence to promote sustainable development" in the "Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative" and helping countries along the "Belt and Road", the China Computer Society, Xinhua Publishing House, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Tencent Kaizu, jointly launched the "Artificial Intelligence Strengthening Learning Sustainable Development Plan".

The plan includes two sections: "Inclusive Artificial Intelligence Education" and "Co-construction of Reinforced Learning Standards". Next, Tencent will join forces with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and other universities to create "Artificial Intelligence General Course" and "Artificial Intelligence Reinforcement Learning Professional Course", and open it to universities across the country and countries along the "Belt and Road" to help them quickly build a cutting-edge and high-quality AI teaching system.

"The Belt and Road Initiative is proposed to provide new impetus for the cooperation and development of various countries by working together to build an open cooperation platform. In this process, Tencent also hopes to assume social responsibilities, be on the same frequency with the country, and live in society. This time, Tencent participated in the launch of the sustainable development plan for artificial intelligence reinforced learning, and will be based in Sichuan and face the world, especially countries along the Belt and Road Initiative, through open collaboration, solve the problem of sharing AI educational resources." said Cai Guangzhong, vice president of Tencent.

Artificial Intelligence Reinforced Learning Sustainable Development Plan Launched on the Site

The forum is co-organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the People's Government of Sichuan Province, and the People's Government of Chongqing Municipality, and hosted by the China Institute of Science and Technology, the Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province, the University of Electronic Science and Technology, Tencent Company, and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. It aims to build an international exchange platform, deepen artificial intelligence technology cooperation, and promote sustainable development.

Provide universal resources for step-by-step and standardized teaching

Talent is the foundation of innovative development. At present, my country's core artificial intelligence industry has a scale of nearly 600 billion yuan, and there is a strong demand for talents. According to relevant reports, the gap in artificial intelligence talents in my country exceeds 5 million, and the supply and demand ratio reaches 1:10.

In practice, the cultivation of artificial intelligence talents also faces many constraints: on the one hand, systematic and standardized AI general education is scarce, and AI general education has not yet been popularized; on the other hand, professional talent training generally faces the dilemma of "four lacks": lack of teachers, lack of courses, lack of practical training, and lack of tools. The "Plan for the Development of New Generation Artificial Intelligence" clearly states that building a high-end talent team has become the top priority of the development of artificial intelligence, and proposes to strengthen cooperation between industry, academia and research.

"Only by building a full-gradient and multi-level talent training system covering universal knowledge, professional applications, and cutting-edge research can we inject inexhaustible impetus into the healthy development and sustainable application of AI technology." said Cai Guangzhong, vice president of Tencent.

Tencent Vice President Cai Guangzhong shared the theme of "Technology for Good: Promoting the Sustainable Development of AI through Education Inclusiveness and Openness"

Creating a full-link artificial intelligence talent training path of "curriculum resources - teaching and research platform - industry training - teaching support" is an important part of the "Inclusive Artificial Intelligence Education" sector.

According to reports, the artificial intelligence education universal sector is initiated by Tencent’s enlightenment platform, aiming to provide global universities with the “step-by-step and standardized” teaching resources for "Artificial Intelligence General Course" and "Artificial Intelligence Reinforcement Learning Professional Course". From now on, universities across the country can register through Tencent Kaiwu official website, and the registration time will last until December 31, 2025. The first batch of universities that have registered for the project will receive a complete set of resources such as "Artificial Intelligence General Course" and "Artificial Intelligence Reinforcement Learning Professional Course", including courseware, lesson plans, MOOC courses, practical training platforms, practical training scenarios, class test questions and experimental resources.

In addition, Tencent will open a teaching practice environment based on massive real business scenario optimization, so that students can apply what they have learned in an environment close to the industry, and provide teachers with a one-stop teaching management platform to help cooperative universities build a high-level faculty team that meets the needs of the times and connects with the cutting-edge of the industry.

"We look forward to benefiting tens of thousands of teachers and students through the empowerment of courses, platforms and practical training, and helping students improve their knowledge level and practical ability in artificial intelligence, especially in the field of reinforcement learning; through teacher training and exchanges, we help cooperative universities establish a group of high-level AI teaching backbone forces, explore more high-quality regional AI cooperation projects and research results, and form a sustainable educational ecology." Cai Guangzhong said.

Formulate technical standards for reinforcement learning and promote ecological coordination

Industry-general technical standards are an important foundation for the sustainable development of the industry. Especially for the artificial intelligence industry, standardization can not only reduce early trial and error costs and repetitive resource investment, but also strengthen upstream and downstream cooperation in the industry and establish ecological coordination. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and four other departments previously jointly issued the "Guidelines for the Construction of the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Comprehensive Standardization System (2024 Edition)", proposing that by 2026, the linkage level between my country's artificial intelligence industry standards and industrial scientific and technological innovation will continue to improve, and a standard system that leads the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry will be formed at an accelerated pace.

Li Wenxin, deputy director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Peking University, introduced that, led by Peking University, the University of Science and Technology of China and Tencent Kaiwen Platform, jointly organized more than 30 domestic university research institutions and industry partners to formulate and release the industry's first series of technical standards for reinforced learning systems covering environmental interfaces, intelligent interfaces, and platform frameworks at the China Computer Society (CCF), filling the standard gap in the field.

Li Wenxin said that the creation of a series of standards for reinforcement learning systems aims to break technical barriers, reduce cross-field collaboration costs, and accelerate the process of universal reinforcement learning technology. "We need to define the standards of the industry and understand how to interface. Then a small team or a small company can focus on a module and concentrate on solving a problem. Through industry standards or system standards, we can gather the strength of several small teams to create a big industry." Li Wenxin said.

Li Wenxin, Vice Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Peking University, introduced the sustainable development plan for artificial intelligence reinforcement learning

The award ceremony for academic competitions, research and production linkage, enlightenment of artificial intelligence global open competition was held

As an important part of the linkage of "study, competition, research and production", the competition can effectively connect the government, industry, academic circles and scientific research institutions, and jointly promote the development of the artificial intelligence ecosystem and industrial innovation.

Since 2020, Tencent Kaiwu has organized competitions for six consecutive years and was upgraded to Tencent Kaiwu Artificial Intelligence Global Open in 2024. As the first global artificial intelligence event in China that focuses on "decision-making intelligence" technology, the first Global Open closely revolves around the "Belt and Road" initiative, attracting nearly 400 teams from home and abroad from 19 countries and regions around the world to compete on the same stage, including talent teams from six countries along the "Belt and Road", becoming an international stage for the collision of ideas and technical exchanges of global young AI talents.

On June 12, the 2024 Tencent Enlightenment Artificial Intelligence Global Open Award Ceremony was held. Zhejiang University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Sichuan University won the top three in the global finals of the Intelligent Game Algorithm Track.

The award ceremony of the 2024 Tencent Kaihuo Artificial Intelligence Global Open Finals

"In last year's competition, we witnessed that technology has no borders, and AI students from 19 countries learned from each other, building a bridge for international exchanges and cooperation in cutting-edge science and technology education through competitions. This year's competition will be upgraded again, deepening and implementing the joint competition model of government, schools, enterprises and colleges, and building a collaborative education system that connects the education chain, talent chain and industrial chain, and using the competition as a starting point to continue to serve the science and technology and talent exchanges of countries along the Belt and Road." Yang Wei, general manager of Tencent AI Platform Department, said.

On the basis of continuing the results of last year's event, the 2025 Tencent Kaiyu Artificial Intelligence Global Open joined forces with the National University Computer Capability Challenge for the first time to build an innovative event platform that collaborates between industry, academia and research. Focusing on the real application scenarios of the cutting-edge artificial intelligence industry, it introduced the "embodied intelligence" frontier questions for the first time, and upgraded and optimized industrial tracks such as intelligent traffic light scheduling and AI chip operator development, aiming to enable young students to face real scenario challenges and let the technical achievements in the laboratory enter practical applications. The winning team will also receive opportunities such as employment, internships or forward-looking technical projects.

In order to promote the parallelization of high-quality employment of talents and the high-quality development of the industry, Tencent will also open its arms to the world's top AI talents through a complete campus recruitment and training system such as the "Qingyun Plan". As a recruitment project for top technical students around the world, Tencent Qingyun plans to provide strong impetus for young talents to explore cutting-edge technologies by providing industry-leading faculty, sufficient computing resources and highly competitive salary ranks. The project has set up more than 100 technical topics in the top ten technical fields such as AI big models, infrastructure, high-performance computing, and big data, supporting young talents to deeply participate in cutting-edge technical topics and core businesses such as Hunyuan big models and games. At the same time, Tencent Academy’s “Youth Science Training Camp” system has also reached in-depth cooperation with the enlightenment team, creating a layered PBL technology training system from the aspects of competition combination, camp products, student selection and training, camp projects, etc., to help students cultivate creativity and comprehensive abilities in practice.

"We always adhere to the belief that technological exploration should go side by side with humanistic care. Only by allowing more people to understand technology, participate in technology, and supervise technology can the trust and fairness of the AI ​​society be truly established. In the future, Tencent will open up more technical capabilities such as Hunyuan to create more benchmarks for industrial application; at the same time, it will unite with the team of top domestic AI universities to build an open and prosperous AI talent ecosystem and promote the universal development of AI on a global scale." Cai Guangzhong said.