A digital education project named "Zhihuihai" from the Putuo district bureau of education in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang province, was presented at the 2026 World Digital Education Conference in Hangzhou on May 11, highlighting how AI is being used to improve education access and teaching quality in island regions.

The project focuses on addressing challenges caused by geographic isolation, including limited access to high-quality educational resources and barriers to teacher training and collaboration.

The project has established a three-level cooperation system linking education authorities, schools, and teachers, alongside an incentive mechanism that encourages educators to contribute teaching resources. Its core feature is a network of subject-based AI assistants that combine official educational content with teachers' classroom experience. The system supports lesson preparation, classroom instruction, and after-class tutoring, while also allowing teachers to incorporate their own teaching methods into personalized AI tools that can be shared with colleagues.

The platform also includes digital profiles and AI evaluation systems for teachers, helping younger educators improve their teaching skills more efficiently.

At the exhibition area, the district's bureau of education demonstrated the "Zhihuihai" platform through interactive terminals, featuring digital education avatars and AI-supported classroom analysis systems. Visitors were able to interact directly with subject AI assistants and observe how digital technology can expand island-themed courses, including fishing rope knotting and fishermen's painting, to students in regions such as Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Yunnan province.