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Survival of the Fittest

At 51Talk, an educational company that specializes in online classes, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a key role, especially for young students.

According to Zhang Xingjian, a marketing staff, the company has introduced AI cartoons through which youngsters learning Chinese are given their preliminary instructions, making learning fun. Students interact through speech recognition and speech technology.

Since classrooms switched online due to COVID-19 last year, technology has become an integral part of education and would continue to be so though offline schooling has resumed with containment measures.

According to a plan issued by the National Development and Reform Commission

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