The Kids Expo China 2025, with the theme of "Educational Action Based on the ‘Preschool Education Law’", invited more than 100 guest speakers to exchange views of policy, scholars, and principals on teaching in accordance with the law, and provide comprehensive support for participants from "knowing the law" to "implementing the law".

As one of the theme forums, the "Seminar on Differentiated Competition and Characteristic Development of Kindergartens" focused on industry practices after the implementation of the "Preschool Education Law of the People's Republic of China". We specially invited 4 senior education experts, famous principals and curriculum development leaders to decode the diverse paths of kindergarten development based on policies and practices.
 
Mr. WANG Guoping
· An outstanding leader in China's private preschool education
· Honorary Chairman of the Preschool Working Committee of Henan Private Education Association
· Vice President of Henan Private Education Research Institute

The Subject of Competition in the Post-kindergarten Era: Gaps and Differences

Vice President WANG analyzed in detail the competitive landscape in the post-competitive era of kindergartens, pointing out that this era has changed from "more children and fewer kindergartens" to "more kindergartens and fewer children". Competition has changed from mild to tense, and the focus of competition has shifted from hardware and enrollment techniques to curriculum, services, characteristics and service team quality.

To maintain competitiveness, kindergartens should move away from homogeneity and develop towards refinement, making differences and gaps from competitors. Making differences means having what others do not have, which requires spirituality and innovation, and thinking of what others dare not think of and cannot think of. Making differences means being better than others, which requires resilience and long-term view, and anchoring the focus to do things to the extreme.

Vice President WANG concluded that the ultimate opponent in the post-competitive era is yourself, the yesterday’s ones.
 

Mr. QIN Wenxi
· President of Guangdong New Concept Education Research Institute

From AI Tools to Future Education, What We Must Know

President QIN analyzed the changes in education in the AI era, pointing out that AI drives new teaching models, such as the generation of teaching applications like AI teaching assistants and personalized learning paths, and prompts teachers to transform their roles into "guides."

He shared the practical cases of "MAI" metacognitive AI teaching assistant to demonstrate the advantages of AI teaching. "MAI" helps students understand the meaning of questions and stimulates thinking through guiding questions and interactive feedback, thereby improving learning skills and strengthening knowledge memory.

In the AI era, teachers can flexibly use AI to improve teaching quality. When using AI, they can ask questions from four perspectives: "Who are you (role positioning)", "What to do (background and tasks)", "How to do it (specific requirements/steps)" and "Don't do it (restrictions)".
 

Mr. LI Zhengdong
· Director of Guangzhou Huamei English Experimental School Kindergarten
· Tianhe District Kindergarten Supervisor

Unlock the Innovative Development Path of Kindergartens from the Perspective of A Male Headmaster Born in the 1990s

Mr. LI, a kindergarten principal born in the 1990s, focused on the innovative development path of kindergartens. He pointed out that although the current early childhood education industry is facing challenges such as a declining birth rate and a weak economic environment, Guangdong still has development opportunities due to its birth population advantage, and early childhood education practitioners should maintain an optimistic attitude and move forward.

Principal LI proposed to clarify the characteristics of the kindergarten through marketing strategies (such as STP and 4P) and to meet the needs of parents through differentiated positioning, thus breaking the dilemma of homogeneity.

Taking Huamei Kindergarten as an example, he introduced the kindergarten's vision of "helping children adapt to a changing future" and its educational goal of "cultivating future citizens who are healthy in body and mind". He also shared its rich curriculum system and educational philosophy, including IB trans-disciplinary theme inquiry courses, immersion English activities, personalized development activities and other diversified experiential inquiry courses, demonstrating the kindergarten's unique advantages in international vision, personalized development and lifelong learning.

Mrs. LI Mingjing
· Preschool education teacher at Guangxi University of Foreign Languages
· Preschool education supervisor in Chengbei District, Xining City
· Deputy director of the Preschool Education Committee of Tao Xingzhi Education Foundation

In the Era of Declining Birthrate, the Inevitable Trend and Practical Exploration of the Integrated Development of Kindergartens and Communities

Mrs. LI discussed the way out for China's early childhood education industry based on the experience of Japan's private education in coping with the declining birthrate. She proposed that China's private education should follow the path of community integration development and develop in the direction of a community service complex with educational attributes.

Mrs. LI shared several practical cases, such as field trip projects, providing meals for parents, AI smart health rooms, winter vacation care, and senior citizen universities with kindergartens. She demonstrated the diversified development paths of kindergartens as community service complexes and emphasized that the early childhood education industry needs to be repositioned to adapt to the changes of the time.

Mrs. LI finally concluded that competition in the early childhood education industry is no longer competition among peers, and the core competitiveness of kindergartens is no longer the quality of kindergarten operation. What needs to be done now is to examine one's own value -- plan ahead and optimize the layout.
 

The implementation of the "Preschool Education Law of the People's Republic of China" marks that our country's preschool education has fully entered a new stage of legalization, universalization and high-quality development.

The theme forum "Seminar on Differentiated Competition and Characteristic Development of Kindergartens" allowed us to see educational innovation led by policies. Four experts provided feasible solutions for the early childhood education industry from the perspectives of "making differences and gaps", "AI empowerment", "differentiated positioning" and "community integration".

In the new development stage after the implementation of the "Preschool Education Law", early childhood education practitioners should seize opportunities, actively seek change, establish kindergartens with characteristics, and win through innovation, so as to enable kindergartens to stand out in differentiated competition.