The services provided by China's smart higher education platform have covered 166 countries and regions around the world, helping to innovate the traditional education model and promote education reform.

The MOOC, referring to large-scale online university courses opening to the public, has been regarded as an important engine for higher education reform.

China's smart platform for higher education, which was officially launched last year, has collected 27,000 MOOC classes and virtual simulation experiments, more than 65,000 textbooks, videos and other educational resourses.

The platform has been providing services for users from 166 countries and regions.

As of last November, the number of MOOC classes in China has exceeded 61,900, with 402 million signed-up users and 979 million learners. The numbers of MOOC classes and learners in China both rank first in the world.

China's program aiming to send high-quality MOOC classes to west China has covered almost all universities in western Chinese provinces.

In 2022, the program provided 45,000 MOOC classes and targeted courses for universities in west China, helped the western region to carry out 1.769 million mixed teaching courses, with 250 million students participating, and trained 355,000 teachers in west China.

China has been actively promoting international exchanges and cooperation on MOOC and online education, and has established world alliance of MOOC and online education, and successfully held Global MOOC and Online Education Conference in 2022. China established two international platforms for online higher education - iCourse and xuetangx.com, providing more than 1,000 multilingual courses and supporting services.

"We will further expand applications [of MOOC classes], apply big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain technologies to MOOC teaching, and expand the opening up and cooperation to introduce more classes to other countries, accelerate the construction of a global community with digital higher education, and promote the sustainable and higher-quality development of world's higher education," said Wu Shixing, deputy director of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education of China.