From November 8 to 9, the 2025 World University Presidents Forum and the 2025 International Forum on Higher Education were held at the Hangzhou International Expo Center. Zhao Shuangliang, Vice President of GXU, was invited to attend the event and deliver a keynote speech titled “Bridging the Digital-Intelligence Gap and Promoting Equity in Higher Education.”

In his speech, Zhao Shuangliang highlighted that digital technology and artificial intelligence have brought important opportunities for advancing equity in higher education, which are specifically reflected in the universal access to high-quality educational resources, the realization of personalized teaching, and the optimization of resource allocation. However, they have also given rise to three major “digital-intelligencedivides” in terms of universities’ computational power support,teachers’ digital-intelligenceliteracy, and teaching contentandresources.In response to this, he proposedefforts instrengthening infrastructure construction, sharing high-quality resources, improving teachers’ digital-intelligenceliteracy, providing targeted project support, and promoting global collaboration in digital-intelligenceeducation, so as to bridge the“digital-intelligencedivides”within higher education in the age of artificial intelligence.Furthermore, heintroduced the latest practices and achievements ofGXUinitsdigital transformation of education.

It is reported thatthe 2025 World University Presidents Forum and the 2025 International Forum on Higher Education were co-hosted by the China Association of Higher Education (CAHE) and Zhejiang University. The forums wereheld under the themes “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Higher Education” and “ALeading Country in Educationand theHigh-Quality Development ofHigher Education”.The events attracted nearly 170 overseas guests from over 40 countries and regions across five continents, including university presidents, representatives of international organizations, government officials, and experts and scholars.In addition, more than 20 academicians, over 200 secretaries and presidents of domestic universities, more than 100 renowned expertsand scholarsin the field of higher education, as well as nearly 1,000 representatives from domestic universitiesandresearch institutions attended theevents.