On 15th September, Unipus and Scholastic signed a strategic agreement during the 28th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF). Both parties reached a consensus on the exchanges of high-quality resources and the cooperation of digital business. In the future, Unipus and Scholastic will work together in providing readers with learning resources from home and abroad, promoting foreign language reading and enhancing the understanding between different cultures.

At the signing ceremony, Shang Qikun, CEO of Unipus, said that after seven years of development, Unipus has created a closed loop of digital education in foreign languages. Relying on Unipus’ product system and intelligent teaching solutions, which integrates “teaching, learning, evaluation, research and management”, Unipus has provided services for over 1,700 universities and 5,000 middle and primary schools in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, with more than 70 million users in the whole learning range. As a new educational and technological service provider with abundant industry resources and outstanding R & D ability, Unipus has actively built a comprehensive digital resource system for foreign language teaching and learning. While upgrading the existing resource categories, Unipus has been actively developing new contents and models, strengthening cooperation with industry-leading institutions, and seeking the coexistence of vitality, innovation and uniqueness.

Fang Zekun, CEO of Scholastic in Greater China, said that since its establishment 101 years ago, Scholastic has been deeply engaged in the field of children's English reading and writing, providing rich English reading resources and high-quality English teaching services for children and teachers from all over the world. As time passed, Scholastic, based on its profound cultural deposits and brand influence, has actively explored and developed online reading resources and services to continuously improve users' reading experience, which coincides with the development concept of Unipus. The strategic cooperation between the two parties will not only create new impetus for the industry of basic digital education, but also contribute new strength to the development of China's publishing industry.

The strategic cooperation will start from the Voice of FLTRP, a personal learning platform that gathers the classic foreign language learning contents of FLTRP. The two parties will first work together to help improve the reading ability of primary school learners by giving full play of Unipus’s advantages in platform and resource, and Scholastic’s advantages in guiding and independent reading solutions. In the future, Unipus and Scholastic will further deepen their cooperation in resources, products and solutions to benefit more Chinese foreign language learners with high-quality content and excellent learning experience.