The 5th Beijing International Children’s Off-Campus Education and Products Exhibition (BJCEE)in 2018
Approved by the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China and sponsored by China World Trade Center Co., Ltd., the 5th Beijing International Children’s Off-Campus Education and Products Exhibition (Children’s Off-Campus Education and Maker Education) was held in the National Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing, from October 25thto 27th, 2018. With the exhibition area of 10,000 square meters and 178 enterprises worldwide (161 Chinese and 17 overseas), teenagers and children’s Off-Campus Education and Maker Education were the two main topics of the exhibition.
Overall Introduction To the Exhibition
Basic Statistics of the Exhibition
Theexhibition area is 12,000 square meters, which increased60% compared to last year. The number of exhibitors increased 17% (with 160 exhibitors last year). The number of professional audiencesincreased 23.6% compared to last year with more than 3600 professional people (with 2937 last year). The turnover on the exhibition was 76,320,000RMB, which increased 42%. The exhibition and the synchronous forums were highly recognized and acclaimed by professional audiences and well-known medias.
Unique features of the exhibition
v Off-Campus Education and Maker Education were highly popular
The exhibition gathered multitudinous well-known brands from China and overseas, including “Dongfangtute”, “Youyouxiang”, “Yuanheqingshang”, “Dongfangzhixing”, “Princeton”, “Shayugongyuan”, “Aikeruite”, “Magao”, “Huibaochuangke”, “Leju”, “Wankeyingdi”, “Faladi Science Museum”, “Duomiao”, “Xiangyuchuangke”, “Youyouyu Creative Science Museum”, “Xiaofangao”, “Tongxintonghua”, “Qiquchuangyi”, “Hengzhongqingda”, “Luolan Digital Music”, “Maker Panda”, “Mugongfang”, etc.
In the exhibition, Maker Education, Robot-Based Education, Camping Education and Off-Campus Education were the most attractive and popular education branches.With the booming popularity of “Double-Making” activities and ExperientialEducation,Off-Campus Education and Maker Education are embraced by experts and parents. Maker Education, Camping Education, and Robot-Based Education bring the new vitality to the quality-oriented education among teenagers and children.
v Various excellent forums and activities during the exhibition period
In order to promote the positive development of teenagers and children’s Off-Campus Education, the sponsor organized various excellent forums and activities, including the Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Off- Campus Education Forum, Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Camping Education Forum, the Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Maker Education Forum, and the Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Robot-Based Education Forum. Experts of Camping Education, including Niu Zhipei, Wang Xuehui, Anne Cheng, David Latimer, Liu Yili, etc, discussed and shared their researches on these topics of ‘the strategic meaning of experiencing education’, ‘the current situation and features of the American camping education’, and ‘the security management of outdoor camping courses’. The professionals in Maker Education, such as Qiao Fengtian, Ma Xiaohuan, Cheng Chen and Zhang Yongqi, gave a comprehensive analysis based on the topics of ‘the report of 2016 Maker Education Resources in primary schools and secondary schools’, as well as ‘the reflection on the classification in Maker and Robot-Based Education’. Zhang Yuping, Yang Wenze, and Guan Huidan, presented their achievements on the ‘importance of attention in intelligence education’, ‘the opportunities and challenges of early education under the‘Law for Promotion of Private Education’’. During the Robot-Based Education Forum, the sponsor invited Professor Shen Yulong (subdecanal and PhD supervisor of the School of Computing in Xidian University), Liu Xiaojun (member of Guiguzi Research Institute in the Ministry of Culture, the founder of Shangquan Speech, and one of the representatives of Belt and Road report delegation in ASEAN), Lin Feng (senior engineer of computer software and expert on brain waves) and other famous professionals discussed and analyzed based on ‘the internationalization of Chinese Robot-Based Education’, ‘the critical influence of the collaboration between schools and enterprises on Robot-Based Education’, and ‘the organization of Robot Competition as well as the evaluation of Robot skills’. The forums attracted thousands of people, including principles from primary and secondary schools, representatives of institutes and managers of Children’s Centers. The forums gained great benefits for society.
Planning of the 6th BJCEE
1. Enrich the exhibition contents
Combined withState Education Commission’sguidance policies on off-campus education and related activities, BJCEE will continuously enrich the content of different modules of off-campus education. For instance, Children’s Camping Education, Skill-development Education, Health Education, Scientific Promotion and New Media Education will be added. Additionally, various enterprises in Children Scientific Education, Military Education, Patriotic Education, Traditional Culture Education, Thematic Education, Children’s Art Education, Intelligence Education, and Safety Education with corresponding products will be invited to the exhibition to further enrich the content of off-campus education exhibition.
2. Increase the technology content of exhibiting brands
On the basis of enriched content of the exhibition, the exhibiting area of brands will be reasonably increased. The brands of Camping Education, Robot-Based Education, Maker Education, Skill-development and New media will be supported to lead the trend of development. The invitations to overseas enterprises will be emphasized in order to provide greater diversity and more opportunities of the exhibition.
3. Focus on the invitations to audiences
To enlarge the effects of the exhibition, BJCEE in 2018 will focus on the invitations to Chinese and foreign audiences, especially the number and quality of professional purchasers, while the scale of the exhibition is enlarged. The collaboration with Asian countries, such as Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Malaysia, will be strengthen. Overseas audiences will be invited and the scale of purchasers will be extended for helping the exhibitors develop overseas markets.
4. Enrich the Forum activities
Based on the forums in the last exhibition, the 2018 BJCEE will add more forum activities with the favorable advantages in the conference buildings of the National Agricultural Exhibition Center. It is planned to organize the 2018 Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Off- Campus Education Forum, Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Robot-Based Education Forum, Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Camping Education Forum, Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Health Education Forum and Beijing International Teenager and Children’s Skill Education Forum. Well-known experts will be invited globally to share novel theories in the education field with the audiences and contribute to the positive development of teenagers and children’s Off-Campus Education.
Simultaneously, the sponsor planned to organize visiting activities to different institutes, such as Beijing Zhongguancun Maker Space and Beijing Camping Education institutes, which achieves the combination of theories and activities.
Organizing Committee of BJCEE
November 8th, 2018
