[Commentary] The new coronary pneumonia epidemic has impacted many industries, and education and training institutions have also been affected to a certain extent. On April 16, Yu Minhong, the founder of New Oriental and chairman of New Oriental Education Technology Group, admitted in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Service that in the early stage of the outbreak, New Oriental experienced a huge test and took 4 days to transfer students and teachers from offline Online, teach in the form of interactive live classes in small classes.

  [Same period] Yu Minhong, founder of New Oriental Education and Chairman of New Oriental Education Technology Group

  This test is actually quite big. Because the number of New Oriental ground students is close to more than 4 million in terms of number of people, and the teachers of New Oriental Ground are more than 40,000. It has never been the experience of online teaching. Like New Oriental's courses and winter vacation classes, the first three days and the fourth day of the (first month) are about to start, for a total of 4 days. In these 4 days, we have to communicate with more than 1 million parents and students, let them go online, communicate with more than 40,000 teachers, and tell them how online education should be done, equipment configuration, etc.

  【Explanation】 During the epidemic, New Oriental also became the first educational institution in the industry to open regular-priced courses to Chinese elementary and middle school students free of charge. In addition, in order to alleviate the relatively lack of education resources in poor areas, New Oriental plans to launch an artificial intelligence English teaching system, and will also open a learning platform for teachers in poor areas to help poor areas improve education and teachers.

  [Same period] Yu Minhong, founder of New Oriental Education and Chairman of New Oriental Education Technology Group

  Now we are already teaching children in two or three hundred thousand poor areas. What we are doing now is an artificial intelligence teaching system that means rural children ’s English learning before the third grade of elementary school. In terms of teacher training, we will strengthen our efforts in rural areas. This year (2020), we plan to open a learning platform specifically for teachers in rural areas, providing a large number of such courses for teachers to learn by themselves, and through artificial intelligence. Able to basically inspect the teacher, where did he learn this course. We will also incorporate some of the courses that the country must learn from these teachers.

  [Explanation] Yu Minhong believes that the epidemic has enabled educational institutions to accelerate the pace of integration of online and offline education. In the long run, online education will become an indispensable part of the teaching process.

  [Same period] Yu Minhong, founder of New Oriental Education and Chairman of New Oriental Education Technology Group

  After the epidemic, the teaching OMO model (online and offline integrated education) will not change. Only ground-based education can complete the deepest link in the middle of education, face-to-face emotional communication link, problem discussion link, and the positive psychological and psychological impact of people through communication, all of which are online education. Can't finish. As a supplement to online education, the collection of student data, the analysis of the student's learning situation, the arrangement of student assignments and the rapid completion of assignments, an automatic analysis report will be generated after the assignment is completed, which will give students personalized guidance. All these things are definitely more effective online than the ground, and for teachers, students will be very convenient. If there is no such thing, the OMO (online and offline integrated education) model in China is estimated to take 3 to 5 years to complete. In fact, it is now a month.

  [Explanation] The occurrence of the epidemic also brought uncertainty and challenges to the study abroad industry. In Yu Minhong's view, the impact of the epidemic on the study abroad market is temporary.

  [Same period] Yu Minhong, founder of New Oriental Education and Chairman of New Oriental Education Technology Group

  The impact on studying abroad is temporary, that is, once the epidemic has passed, the study abroad in China will definitely return to normal. Foreign countries will not rank Chinese students studying abroad because of the epidemic situation. From the wishes of Chinese parents, he will not be affected. Everyone knows that the process of China's globalization must be a process of increasing globalization of Chinese talents. So no matter from the country to the people, in principle, it will not be greatly affected.

  [Commentary] At present, the epidemic of New Coronary Pneumonia continues to spread globally. Yu Minhong also expressed his opinion on how foreign students should choose between returning to China and staying in the local area.

  [Same period] Yu Minhong, the founder of New Oriental Education and Chairman of New Oriental Education Technology Group, is very simple. Now he has been staying there more securely, and his safety has been guaranteed. Just stay there and not run around. Those who have already returned are seriously waiting in the country. But another suggestion, whether you stay outside or stay back, is not to stop the pace of knowledge pursuit. Taking advantage of this opportunity, you can neither run around nor do anything else. I think that better practice of your concentration and learning ability is the only way that truly future international students can win.

  Lang Jiahui reports from Beijing

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]