Date of Release: December 2, 2015

On December 1, 2015, the “Echoes of China” Tencent Education Annual Event organized by Tencent was held in Renaissance Beijing Wangfujing Hotel. During the announcement of the “Value Chart for 2014 China Education Industry”, ATA was granted the award of “The Most Influential Education Group in China.” Other organizations granted with the same award included New Oriental Education & Technology Group and TAL Education Group.

With the theme of “Everybody is education+”, Tencent Education Annual Event presented a panoramic view of the development and reform of the education industry in the current Internet age by providing guests with opportunities to deliver themed speeches and sharing classic cases. The event brought together people who are concerned about the development of education, including leaders of frontline education enterprises and well-known education experts. Nearly 1,000 participants from education and other industries attended the event.

As a leading testing and assessment provider, ATA has always been dedicated to testing and assessment industry over the past 16 years, upholding, implementing and developing innovative concepts in “testing, evaluation and learning”. Relying on its sustainable core technologies and capabilities in testing and assessment services, ATA based on the principle of “testing, evaluation and learning”, leveraging on big data and mobile Internet, ATA connects testing and assessment with learning, appraisal, job hunting and occupational development.  ATA enables the accurate matching of learning resources with career development paths for test takers; and provides test sponsors, employers and enterprise managers with reliable, objective, all-round and accurate talent management and decision-making basis. In 2015, ATA actively applied big data in the area of job-hunting and recruitment, mobile testing and assessment, cloud-based online test, and online occupational education. As it stands out as a dedicated and professional testing and assessment expert, ATA is presented the award of “The Most Influential Education Group in China”, the most valuable award in the award chart.

In an exclusive interview by Tencent Event, Zhao Shuqiu, executive vice president and CEO assistant of ATA, said that as the largest testing and assessment service provider in China, ATA is dedicated to this industry and actively expanding into the business of online occupational training. ATA provides online occupational education and training services with   well-matched contents to numerous on-the-job employees who can accessed conveniently at their own time, pace and location..

ATA provides close to 10 million times computer-based testing and assessment services annually and is a major player in the field of large-scale computer-based examination services in China. It provides campus recruitment testing and assessment services for various large enterprises such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Bank of Communications. In 2015, a million person times of college graduates participated in campus recruitment examinations of various large enterprises delivered through ATA campus examination services, accounting for about ten percent of the total number of college graduates this year. In 2015, ATA also released new products and services including E-test, a cloud-based online platform and Smart Test, a mobile examination system, which are already serving clients such as Lenovo Group, Canon Group, Cambridge Young Learners English, APA with quality services, and have won recognition and praise from the market and clients.

In 2016, ATA will continue to focus on testing and assessment industry by providing more high quality testing and assessment technologies and services for government authority, industrial association and enterprises, and work hard to actively promote the innovative development of testing and assessment as well as the education industry.

(If there is any inconsistency or conflict between the English and Chinese version, the Chinese version shall prevail.)