On December 16th, the 11th Southern Education Annual Conference, guided by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education and hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Education Research, was held in Guangzhou. Nearly 20 nationally renowned experts and scholars focused on the theme of "New Journey and New Mission: The Connotation, Path, and Practice of the Education Strong Country Strategy", providing consultation and advice for Guangdong to build an education strong province. At the meeting, the relevant person in charge of the Education Department of Guangdong Province stated that Guangdong will implement eight major projects to accelerate the pace of building a strong education province. How to Build an Education Strong Country by Completing Six Major Tasks in Building an Education Strong Country? Du Yubo, President of the China Association of Higher Education, proposed in his keynote speech that in the face of many challenges in building an education powerhouse, it is necessary to embark on a new path of high-quality development of education with Chinese characteristics, and form a good pattern of mutual support and cooperation in the construction of an education powerhouse, a technology powerhouse, and a talent powerhouse. What is the path to building a strong education country? Du Yubo proposed six major tasks, including implementing the fundamental task of cultivating virtue and talent, optimizing and adjusting the layout structure, enhancing the ability to serve high-quality development, deepening institutional and mechanism reforms, expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, and building a high-quality professional teacher team. Zhu Kongjun, Secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, stated that Guangdong will vigorously implement eight major projects, including the Moral Education and Soul Building Project, the Basic Education Quality Improvement Project, the Vocational Education Excellence Project, the Higher Education Innovation Project, the Education Reform Breakthrough Project, the Education Opening up Project, the New Teacher Strengthening Project, and the Education Security Protection Project, to accelerate the construction of an education strong province. Fan Jianping, the director of the preparatory office of Shenzhen University of Technology (preparatory) and the founding president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen Advanced Technology Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the "Advanced Institute"), said that the university is expected to start undergraduate enrollment in 2024. Five years ago, Shenzhen University of Technology (preparatory) began its formal preparation. It is a public full-time research university built by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Shenzhen and relying on advanced institutions. It will explore the way to build a first-class university relying on first-class scientific research institutions. Fan Jianping introduced that the school has recruited and established an international teaching team in accordance with the requirements of first-class disciplines, and has built the first batch of 7 colleges, including the School of Life and Health, the School of Synthetic Biology, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Biomedical Engineering, the School of Computer Science and Control Engineering, the School of Materials Science and Energy Engineering, the School of Computing Microelectronics, etc. It has cooperated with the University of Science and Technology of China, the University of Science and Technology of China, and others Southern University of Science and Technology and other universities have jointly trained over 1700 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students. He stated that the school will establish a distinctive undergraduate talent training mechanism, cultivating talents through mentorship, project-based training, and international training mechanisms. "We will require students to enter the laboratory from the undergraduate stage, truly integrate with the industry, cultivate scientists and engineers, and cultivate innovative talents who can achieve significant breakthroughs in the industry from 0 to 1." The "Love Seed" project has covered more than 300000 teachers and students in building a strong education country, which cannot be separated from the digital transformation of education. Hu Qintai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangdong University of Technology and Dean of the Guangdong Institute of Basic Education and Information Technology (hereinafter referred to as the "Institute of Basic Education and Information Technology"), believes that breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology represented by AI models may reshape education models and promote educational transformation