At the recently held 2026 National Education Work Conference, a series of key measures were taken to promote the construction of healthy schools, accelerate the popularization of artificial intelligence general education throughout the entire school range, and better respond to changes in the school-age population. These measures clarified the core direction of education reform and development this year, and outlined a new blueprint for high-quality education development. 2026 is the starting year of the 15th Five Year Plan and a crucial year for the three-year action plan to build a strong education country. Recently, around the deployment of the National Education Work Conference, various regions have successively clarified the key tasks in the field of education for this year, releasing new signals of education reform and development. Better response to changes in the school-age population is a core variable in the allocation of educational resources. This year's National Education Work Conference proposed to better respond to changes in the school-age population and optimize the layout of basic education resources. At present, the size and distribution of the school-age population are undergoing significant changes, showing a clear "wave like" characteristic - cyclical peaks and valleys caused by fluctuations in birth rates. This poses higher requirements for the dynamic adaptability of educational resource supply. According to data from the Ministry of Education, the population of high school age in China is expected to continue to grow in the coming period, reaching its peak in 2029. At the same time, with the improvement of education popularization level and the changing demand for talents in society, the public's expectations for high-quality ordinary high school education continue to increase. The development of ordinary high schools will face dual challenges of sustained growth of school-age population and continuous improvement of popularization level. In this context, various regions are actively carrying out forward-looking layout and mechanism innovation, continuously expanding and optimizing the supply of degrees. Among them, Zhejiang has carried out systematic exploration in response to changes in the school-age population. The permanent population, birth rate, and urbanization rate are the three key variables that affect the changes in the school-age population in our province. Based on these variables, we predicted that the population of each school-age group in the province will gradually reach its peak. Currently, the school-age population in the preschool and primary school stages has reached its peak, while the school-age population in the junior high and high school stages is still increasing. "Chen Chunlei, Deputy Secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, introduced that in order to achieve this, the local government has coordinated and promoted the seven aspects of" adjustment, communication, increase, integration, optimization, unification, and small "around key resources such as schools, degrees, and teachers, covering layout adjustment, resource integration, degree expansion, private integration, optimization of small-scale schools, teacher staffing coordination, and promotion of small class teaching, gradually building a system that adapts to population fluctuations. Education supply system. Faced with the upcoming peak of high school enrollment, many provinces have launched specific measures to cope with it. For example, Guangdong plans to increase the number of regular high school places by 200000 by 2026 through renovation and expansion, school connectivity, and the construction of new schools; Hubei continues to promote the expansion of high school degrees. Wuhan plans to add another 8000 high-quality high school degrees on the basis of 8000 new high-quality high school degrees by 2025, Xiangyang plans to add 3000 ordinary high school degrees, and Shiyan plans to add 3000 comprehensive high school degrees... Various regions are actively responding to the structural changes in the future school-age population through targeted expansion and optimization measures, striving to ensure the balance of resources and stable quality of high school education. Promoting the construction of healthy schools affects the physical and mental health of students, affecting millions of families and carrying the future of the country and the nation. The 2026 National Education Work Conference emphasizes the promotion of the construction of healthy schools and the overall development of students' physical and mental health. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, the education system continued to deepen the educational concept of "health first", promoting the development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor skills, actively solving practical problems such as "little glasses", "little fat", and mental health, and striving to make students not only "sweat on their bodies and have light in their eyes", but also "dream in their hearts and have strong feet". In practice in various regions, many schools actively explore effective paths for health promotion. In Sichuan, the Affiliated Experimental Primary School of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China has comprehensively popularized students' sports skills through the "1+1+N Prairie Burning Action", helping students master a skipping rope skill, a ball skill, or other characteristic sports skills; In Hunan, Rongjiang Primary School in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture has partnered with a swimming club, inviting the club's swimming coach to serve as a part-time physical education teacher and teach children swimming lessons; In Henan, Zhengzhou No.7 Junior High School has introduced traditional fitness programs such as Shaolin Boxing and Baduanjin into the break time, allowing students to experience the charm of excellent traditional Chinese culture while strengthening their bodies... Schools across the country actively implement the educational concept of "health first", guide students to establish a healthy concept, and effectively promote the construction of healthy schools. Entering 2026, many regions will continue to introduce new measures in the construction of healthy schools. Beijing recently released the "Implementation Plan for the Construction of School Family Social Collaborative Education" Education Alliance "in Beijing, proposing to establish" Education Alliance "in all districts of the city by 2026, build a deep collaborative education new ecology, and effectively serve the comprehensive growth of students' physical and mental health. The plan also launched the" Beijing Xiaobang "comprehensive intelligent agent for family education guidance services, focusing on students' physical and mental health, providing 7 × 24 hours online and personalized professional support; Hebei Province will implement the renovation and upgrading project of classroom lighting and sports venues in primary and secondary schools this year. The plan is to complete the renovation of 50000 eye protection classrooms, upgrade 500 sports venues in primary and secondary schools, and conduct scoliosis screening for 10 million primary and secondary school students in the province; Shandong focuses on the core needs of children and adolescents' health. This year, it is expected to build 20 standardized children and adolescents' sports and health promotion centers, train 1000 certified "sports and health instructors", promote integrated health service packages to 100000 children and adolescents, and build a province wide sports and health digital platform... From concept to action, from hardware transformation to service upgrading, a series of new measures are building comprehensive and solid support for students' physical and mental health development. The National Education Work Conference this year called for accelerating the popularization of AI education across all school levels, solidly promoting AI enabled education, accelerating the popularization of AI general education across all school levels, and stimulating the vitality and momentum of building an education powerhouse. The so-called "whole school education" refers to the integration of artificial intelligence education into various learning stages, breaking down the barriers between traditional education stages and forming an organic and collaborative development education system. By utilizing the cutting-edge, open, and cross disciplinary characteristics of artificial intelligence, students can be identified and guided earlier, and trained more efficiently and targetedly. Internationally, many countries have regarded artificial intelligence literacy as a key indicator of national competitiveness and have launched corresponding plans, such as the "AI for K-12" program in the United States, the "Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027)" in the European Union, and the "AI Singapore" project in Singapore. In China, many regions have actively introduced plans to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and education - Jiangsu recently issued the "Jiangsu Province 'Artificial Intelligence+' Action Plan", which clearly proposes to implement AI enabled education actions, promote new models of human-machine collaborative teaching such as intelligent learning companions and intelligent teachers, and strengthen the research and application of education specific and subject specific models. In terms of application innovation, Jiangsu has developed and launched 6 subject intelligent agents and 20 teaching intelligent agents for primary and secondary schools. The intelligent scoring assistance system has been put into use in exam evaluation. In terms of talent cultivation, Jiangsu has established a comprehensive training system: in the basic education stage, it has issued a guiding outline for artificial intelligence courses and launched a provincial-level artificial intelligence education digital resource center; In the vocational and higher education stages, optimize the layout of disciplines and majors, promote the establishment of artificial intelligence related majors in 36 undergraduate universities and 53 vocational colleges, and establish 15 provincial-level artificial intelligence colleges. Based on the National Big Data Comprehensive Experimental Zone, Guizhou Province has released the "Action Plan for Promoting Artificial Intelligence Empowered Education in Guizhou Province (2026-2030)", promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence and education, and creating a smart education model in Guizhou. The province plans to establish a provincial-level artificial intelligence education computing power sharing platform and characteristic resource library by 2027, based on the principles of "empowerment orientation and human-machine collaboration", and cultivate 100 provincial-level digital transformation pilot schools; By 2030, an integrated artificial intelligence training system covering primary, secondary, and vocational colleges will be basically established, achieving comprehensive popularization of artificial intelligence education and promoting the large-scale application of local characteristic education models. The Chongqing Municipal Education Commission and eight other departments recently jointly issued the "Action Plan for Promoting 'Artificial Intelligence+Education' in Chongqing", focusing on the deep integration of artificial intelligence and education, and building a new ecology of intelligent education. The plan will focus on creating "artificial intelligence+" learning scenarios, promoting intelligent applications such as "AI learning companions", and providing personalized services such as adaptive learning path planning, intelligent analysis of learning difficulties, and tutoring for students. According to the target set in the plan, by the end of 2026, the popularization rate of new generation educational intelligent terminals and intelligent agent applications in Chongqing will reach over 70%; By the end of 2027, the penetration rate of relevant applications will increase to over 80%, and 150 innovative schools with "artificial intelligence+education" characteristics will be built, promoting Chongqing's leading development level of "artificial intelligence+education" in the western region and ranking among the top in the country. (New Society)