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-intelligence divides” in terms of universities’ computational power support, teachers’ digital-intelligence literacy, and teaching content and resources. In response to this, he proposed efforts in strengthening infrastructure construction, sharing high-quality resources, improving teachers’ digital-intelligence literacy, providing targeted project support, and promoting global collaboration in digital-intelligence education, so as to bridge the “digital-intelligence divides” within higher education in the age of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, he introduced the latest practices and achievements of GXU in its digital transformation of education.

It is reported that the 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 were held under the themes “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Higher Education” and “A Leading Country in Education and the High-Quality Development of Higher 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 experts and scholars in the field of higher education, as well as nearly 1,000 representatives from domestic universities and research institutions attended the events.