BEIJING — Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan on July 8 stressed efforts in building a national platform for educational public services to further boost the country's high-quality education system.

Sun made the remarks while inspecting a new national smart education platform at the Ministry of Education. She urged efforts to enhance digital education, promote the application of information technology in education, and make the platform an important public good.

Noting that the platform connecting 529,000 schools helps narrow the educational gap among different regions and schools, Sun called for further efforts to pool high-quality educational resources, optimize educational public services, improve the quality of education, and promote educational equity.