在我们的发展过程中，新东方的使命经历了四个阶段的变化。我们的第一个使命是成为学生出国留学的桥梁，归国就业的彩虹。新东方从留学备考开始，帮助了许多中国学生到美国、英国等地学习。我们也帮助他们毕业后回到中国工作。当然，很多中国学生毕业后都留在了美国，但是越来越多的人回到了中国。后来，新东方拓展了提供全方位英语学习的服务，我们的第二个使命就是使新东方成为“中国人学习英语的地方”。之后，新东方继续强化英语培训的优势，并进入许多其他学科的培训，包括数学、语文、物理、化学等。新东方不再是一个单纯学习英语的地方，我们的使命变成了“为梦想而来新东方”。当然，它有点模糊和宽泛，所以我们有了第四个使命。我们希望通过我们的努力，培养出一代具有“终身学习、全球视野、独立人格、社会责任”的中国人。大家可以看到，我们其实是逐渐进入教育的核心，因为我们相信教育应该是“全人教育”。所谓“全人教育”，不只是知识教育，而是让学生成为更好的人，更好地为社会服务。我认为这四个方面是相当重要的，即“终身学习、全球视野、独立人格、社会责任”。这一使命是我们对学生的责任，我们任重道远。
New Oriental has done a lot. Yet, in terms of our goals, we have just begun. What we have done to the students in China is far from enough. The emergence of new technologies, whether Internet, artificial intelligence, big data, has had a major impact on all industries. In the field of education, it will have a more significant impact. Today, what New Oriental has to do is not only teach students knowledge or provide teachers with tools and contents, but to combine that with mobile internet, AI and big data. New Oriental has set up a research institute for AI+ education to experiment the combination of cutting-edge technologies and education. We are working hard to come up with products to enable students to learn more effectively and intelligently. At the same time, New Oriental is also actively working with public schools, promoting a smart and intelligent education system for public schools. Such kind of system has been developed for several years and can improve the overall learning efficiency for students in public schools, providing them with solutions.
新东方做了很多事。然而，就我们的目标而言，我们才刚刚开始。我们对中国学生所做的远远不够。新技术的出现，无论是互联网、人工智能、大数据，都对所有行业产生了重大影响。在教育领域，它将产生更重大的影响。如今，新东方所要做的不只是教给学生知识或为教师提供工具和内容，而是将其与移动互联网、人工智能和大数据相结合。新东方成立了研究人工智能+教育的AI研究院，尝试尖端技术与教育的结合。我们正在努力开发产品，使学生能够更有效、更聪明地学习。同时，新东方也正积极与公立学校合作，为公立学校推广一套高效、智能的教育系统。这样的系统已经开发了几年，可以提高公立学校学生的整体学习效率，为他们提供完整的解决方案。
China also faces the challenge in education equality and balance. China has invested huge amount of money in education in 40 years of reform and opening up. The investment is dozens of times more than it’s used to be. However, we still face the problem of education imbalances. Children in rural and mountainous areas are unable to receive good quality of education as children in the urban areas. With the development of technology, such as remote learning, dual teacher, we can do a lot of things in improving education equality in China. I believe the real development of China's future must be the development of education equality through technology, so that children in every corner can receive the best quality education in China, so that every child has the hope to have the opportunity to enter the best universities in the world.
中国也面临着教育公平与均衡的挑战。改革开放40年来，中国在教育方面投入了大量的资金。这项投资比以前多了几十倍。但是，我们仍然面临着教育不均衡的问题。农村和山区的儿童无法像城市儿童那样接受高质量的教育。随着远程教育、双师课堂等技术的发展，我们可以做很多事情来提高我国的教育均衡水平。我相信中国未来的真正发展，必须是透过科技推动教育平等，使每一个角落的儿童都能接受中国最好的优质教育，让每一个儿童都有机会进入世界一流的大学。
For an educational institution like New Oriental, I believe we must have the ability to serve the country and the society. We should educate students with independent thinking, good personality, sound knowledge and creativity. More importantly, we need to empower students with skills in lifelong learning, global vision, independent personality, and social responsibility. This is our mission today. As for the future of New Oriental, we hope to become an integrator and provider of excellent educational content, system and learning platform in China and the world. We hope that New Oriental becomes a lifelong learning service provider, providing high-tech and products from pre-school to lifelong education. We will also try to explore the combination of technology and education with human instructions. More importantly, we will devote ourselves to promote education equality in China, providing high-quality education services to children in rural areas in China, opening a bright path for their future.
