On November 7, 2025, Huatu Education hosted an AI strategy launch event at Beijing’s National Stadium (Bird’s Nest), showcasing its comprehensive AI strategic plan, product implementation, and development roadmap.

Yi Dinghong, Founder and President of Huatu Education, has consistently emphasized an "All in" approach to AI. In March 2025, Yi led Huatu’s executives in releasing the "Huailai Declaration," outlining a "One Body, Two Wings, One Driver" strategy that positions "technological innovation" as a key pillar, underscoring the necessity of tech-driven education for high-quality development. Under this framework, Huatu has significantly increased AI R&D investment. According to Huatu Shanding’s Q3 2025 earnings report, R&D expenses surged 160.41% year-over-year to RMB 145 million, primarily allocated to expanding the R&D team and solidifying the foundation for AI strategy execution.

**Strategic Moves Behind Growth** Huatu Shanding’s Q3 2025 financial report revealed revenue of RMB 2.464 billion for the first three quarters, up 15.65% YoY, while net profit rose 92.48% to RMB 249 million. This industry-leading performance stems from Huatu’s precise grasp of market trends and timely strategic adjustments.

Wu Zhengkao, Chairman of Huatu Shanding, noted that a growing number of graduates are returning to their hometowns to pursue full-time, long-term civil service exam preparation. To meet the demand for "localized learning," Huatu prioritized three initiatives in 2025: regional operational reforms with expanded municipal teaching centers, optimized products like the hit "Exam Prep Express," and streamlined service processes to shift from market-driven to product- and service-driven operations.

Huatu currently leads the industry by a narrow margin, with future success hinging on high-quality, student-centric products and AI-powered technological empowerment.

**The Core of Educational AI** Industry consensus holds that superior educational AI products rely on three pillars: foundational technology (accessible to all major players), structured vertical data accumulation, and robust human-machine collaboration.

"Huatu possesses unparalleled advantages in structured vertical data and human-machine synergy—a 20-year edge no competitor can replicate. This ensures Huatu’s leadership in the AI race," stated Wu Zhengkao. "We welcome competition and are confident in winning this battle."

**Why Huatu’s AI Plays an Open Hand** Over the past year, Huatu validated its AI strategy’s viability. Its AI-powered interview coaching and essay grading products lead the industry in user adoption, with monthly usage doubling consistently. Cai Jinlong, Huatu’s Rotating CEO and AI Lead, described progress as "exceptionally promising," citing three benchmarks: low cost, quality far exceeding industry standards, and rapid execution.

Cai likened Huatu’s advantage to an "iceberg model": visible AI product matrices sit atop submerged, data-driven human-machine collaboration—a true competitive moat only large institutions like Huatu can sustain.

For instance, Huatu’s essay grading AI achieves a 26% higher recognition rate for handwritten responses than competitors. Accuracy is honed via simultaneous scoring by hundreds of human graders and AI, with noise-filtered averages refining machine learning. This process leverages millions of student manuscripts and expert collaboration—resources scarce industry-wide.

"Timely, comprehensive, high-quality datasets determine AI superiority," Cai stressed. Huatu’s annual investment of 3,000 teachers, 3 million hours, and RMB 400–600 million in data governance transforms raw data into structured AI-friendly inputs, creating an insurmountable content barrier.

**Full-Position, Full-Scenario Human-Machine Synergy** "AI product excellence hinges on real-world validation by paying students and iterative learning with teacher input—a deep human-machine loop," Cai explained. Huatu’s scale enables unmatched collaboration: 3,000 teachers spend half their annual 1,000教研 hours on data labeling, rule refinement, and content review, equivalent to RMB 400–600 million in labor costs. Millions of student interactions further refine products—a depth few rivals can match.

Operationally, Huatu’s "all-position, all-scenario" AI workbench boosts enrollment conversion by 35% and sales efficiency by 50%, with 70% of its 7,000 employees (teachers, sales, advisors) actively using the platform.

**Measured Pace, Uncompromising Quality** Huatu’s AI execution follows "Five Tenets": human-machine empowerment, data-driven iteration, personalized teaching, merit-based innovation, and multi-role efficiency.

Amid the AI frenzy, Huatu prioritizes patience over haste. "We won’t rush monetization," Cai asserted. "In AI, first-mover advantage is fleeting—only quality endures." Products launch only after achieving 90% scenario coverage and 90-point benchmarks without human intervention. "Revenue follows excellence," he added.

Cai remains unfazed by competition: "AI supremacy is decided by usage volume—each interaction strengthens learning. A product leading by millions or billions of interactions forces rivals to bridge that gap—no shortcuts exist."

As Yi Dinghong concluded, "AI isn’t mere tool integration—it’s reallocating resources and revolutionizing education." Huatu is seizing this productivity revolution to build an inimitable AI moat, reshaping the future of civil service training.