A major academic forum focusing on green energy within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) framework was recently held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

This high-level event was co-hosted by Xi'an Jiaotong University, the International University of Kyrgyzstan, and the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, bringing together 19 academicians and over a hundred experts, university leaders, and industry representatives from member states including China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Belarus.

Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Liu Jiangping, Kyrgyz Deputy Minister of Energy Sadrakunov, and Xi'an Jiaotong University President and Academician Zhang Liqun delivered opening remarks.

ABLE DIGITAL (02687), a leading domestic player in knowledge technology, was invited to participate and played a key role in launching the "Digital Intelligence Empowered Belt and Road Energy Conservation and Energy Storage Talent Training Demonstration Center".

This marks another significant step for its "Zhihuishu" platform in the realm of cross-border scientific and educational cooperation.

A Cohesive Framework with Three Pillars

The forum announced three key outcomes: the official launch of the China-Kyrgyzstan Clean Energy and Energy Storage "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory; the release of the book "Green Energy in SCO Member States: Strategy, Regulation, and Prospects"; and the inauguration of the "Digital Intelligence Empowered Belt and Road Energy Conservation and Energy Storage Talent Training Demonstration Center" at the International University of Kyrgyzstan.

These achievements are significant not only individually but also for forming a complete collaborative framework—spanning from joint research at the laboratory, to theoretical consolidation in academic publications, and finally to educational implementation at the training center.

This framework points towards a replicable and sustainable cooperation model for SCO member states, rather than a short-term project delivery.

According to forum information, the joint laboratory will focus on Kyrgyzstan as a key partner, addressing Central Asia's clean energy development needs through collaborative research in solar energy, hydrogen, fuel cells, integrated energy systems, smart energy storage, and digital twins.

It will also explore AI-enhanced teaching and talent cultivation using cross-border, cross-time-zone, and hybrid online-offline models, aiming to build an integrated "generation-storage-application-management" green energy cooperation platform.

Each part of this framework is driven by specific individuals.

Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Tao Wenquan, He Yaling, and Guan Xiaohong delivered keynote reports on cutting-edge topics like data center energy efficiency, AI for solar thermal storage, and hydrogen-enabled zero-carbon smart energy systems.

Academicians and experts from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan exchanged views during roundtable discussions on joint research, demonstration applications, standard mutual recognition, youth talent development, and regional industrial synergy.

The Shift from "Chokepoint" to "Voicepoint"

Over the past decade, the term "chokepoint" has become widely understood, referring to the need for self-sufficiency in core technologies, key materials, and high-end equipment.

Breaking blockades and filling gaps in areas from chips to lithography machines, and from aircraft engines to high-end bearings, has been a central theme of national technology strategy.

However, a deeper challenge is emerging, which some industry insiders term the "voicepoint"—referring to discourse power in knowledge systems, the authority to set educational standards, originality in academic concepts, and channels for international dissemination.

Specifically, even as China has achieved leadership in both capacity and technology in fields like energy storage, photovoltaics, hydrogen, and ultra-high voltage, if textbooks are still written by others, terminology is defined by others, and training programs are led by others, even the best Chinese solutions struggle to solidify into sustainable international influence.

Addressing this "voicepoint" challenge requires building China's own independent knowledge system, from original theories to self-compiled textbooks, from local case studies to international courses, and from Chinese discourse to multilingual output.

This is not an overnight task, but substantive steps are already being taken.

The Belt and Road Initiative Enters a Knowledge Export Phase

As the Belt and Road Initiative enters its third decade, cooperation models are evolving—expanding from infrastructure, capacity output, and trade to higher dimensions like scientific collaboration, educational co-construction, and knowledge sharing.

Green energy cooperation among SCO member states serves as a prime example.

It involves both the export of China's strength in clean energy equipment and project construction, and long-term partnership with countries along the route in talent, research, and standards.

The "Digital Intelligence Empowered Belt and Road Energy Conservation and Energy Storage Talent Training Demonstration Center" inaugurated at this forum is tasked not merely with transplanting China's energy discipline curriculum to classrooms in Kyrgyzstan, but more crucially, with delivering China's original, engineering-practiced energy knowledge system in a replicable, digital format to universities and research institutions in SCO member states.

Notably, during the center's launch, participants engaged in real-time interactive experiences with a smart classroom at Xi'an Jiaotong University in Xi'an—this cross-border, real-time, online teaching interaction exemplifies the "digital intelligence empowerment" concept.

Following product export comes knowledge export; after engineering export comes standard export; subsequent to technology export is discourse export.

Opening up in education is becoming a vital fulcrum for the new phase of Belt and Road cooperation.

ABLE DIGITAL's Integrated System: Cross-Border Labs, Academic Research, and Talent Training

As a leading enterprise in China's knowledge technology sector, ABLE DIGITAL's "Zhihuishu" platform currently serves over 2,000 universities, having delivered tens of thousands of digital courses, with hundreds recognized as national-level "golden courses".

Through over a decade of deep engagement in higher education service scenarios, it has amassed vast multimodal data and constructed China's own structured network knowledge system.

The company's role in this forum was not that of a traditional sponsor or exhibitor.

Leveraging its self-developed digital intelligence foundation, Zhihuishu is creating a comprehensive export system encompassing "cross-border laboratories, academician-led research, and talent training demonstration".

This pathway consists of three levels: Technically, using the joint laboratory as a vehicle to promote transnational joint R&D in key clean energy technologies like solar, hydrogen, and energy storage.

At the talent level, using the training demonstration center as a hub to export the curriculum systems, experimental protocols, and teaching standards of China's energy disciplines to Central Asian universities via digital platforms.

Institutionally, leveraging the academician forum mechanism to help formulate policy recommendations at the academician level for SCO green energy development, promoting the alignment and co-construction of knowledge systems, educational systems, and technical standards.

These three interconnected levels form a closed loop from technology to talent, from talent to institutions, and from institutions to consensus.

Establishing technology and talent demonstrations, fostering regional consensus on green energy, and thereby serving regional sustainable development—this is ABLE DIGITAL's positioning in this cooperation, distinguishing it from general educational technology companies.

Aligning with National Strategy

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee explicitly called for advancing high-standard opening up, accelerating the construction of a more effective international communication system, and speeding up the building of an education powerhouse, a science and technology powerhouse, and a talent powerhouse.

Opening up in education is integral to high-standard opening up, digital education is the strategic engine for building an education powerhouse, and the SCO and Belt and Road Initiative are among the most important arenas for implementing this strategy.

From the outcomes list of the China-Central Asia Summit to the hosting of this academician forum in Bishkek; from the unveiling of the joint laboratory to the implementation of digital teaching spaces; from the new book release to the launch of the talent training center—a top-down national strategy is being concretely implemented and supported by a series of specific projects.

The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China identified "promoting the building of a human community with a shared future" as one of the essential requirements of Chinese modernization.

Advancing green energy cooperation within the SCO framework is a concrete manifestation of China's institutional opening up deepening into the energy and education sectors.

The connotation of institutional opening up extends far beyond tariff reductions and market access—it more profoundly points to the alignment and co-construction of knowledge systems, educational systems, and technical standards.

The launch of the China-Kyrgyzstan Joint Laboratory and the inauguration of the "Digital Intelligence Empowered" demonstration center are, in essence, attempts to align China's knowledge system with the development needs of Central Asian countries.

The prerequisite for such alignment is the completeness and maturity of one's own knowledge system.

The dual significance of building China's independent knowledge system lies precisely here: domestically, it forms the foundation for innovation-driven development; externally, it provides the confidence for knowledge cooperation.

From this perspective, ABLE DIGITAL's actions in Bishkek extend far beyond mere forum participation or a single project launch.

In the national strategy of exporting Chinese solutions, demonstrating Chinese propositions, participating in global governance, and reshaping China's discourse system, this company is contributing a sample and case of a new paradigm in science and education.

A Multi-Generational Endeavor

Beyond the conference halls in Bishkek, constructing China's independent knowledge system, supporting high-standard opening up, and co-building a green, low-carbon Belt and Road—this is a multi-generational endeavor.

As a long-term practitioner and co-builder in the knowledge technology field, ABLE DIGITAL has stated it will commit its accumulated expertise in digital infrastructure and project implementation to this endeavor over the long term, aligning with national policies and advancing in sync with the tides of the times.