2025 Countdown Sprint! The Livelihood Project Behind 'One Light'

Core Areas: Xinjiang, Jilin, Henan, Ningxia and other provinces are key targets for 2025 renovations, primarily driven by joint procurement with education bureaus. Project values generally exceed 10 million yuan. For example, Xinjiang adopted a 'province-wide unified bidding + phased construction' model, planning to complete renovations for primary and secondary schools in 86 counties (cities) in 2025, covering over 30,000 classrooms, and has now entered the final stage of equipment installation.

Progress Characteristics: Northern regions started later (most tendering began only at the end of 2024), so their 2025 procurement volume accounts for 62% of the national total. Among them, Jilin Province completed renovations for 12,000 classrooms in the first half of the year, accounting for 75% of its annual target.

▌Southern Region: Entering the "final supplementation phase" period"

Completed regions: Guangdong, Jiangsu, Nan'an District of Chongqing, etc., were fully completed by the end of 2024. The Nan'an District of Chongqing invested 22.16 million yuan to achieve "no dead angle" coverage for 84 campuses and 2,952 venues, with each luminaire's Color temperature and Glare rating (GR) complying with national standards.

Current priorities: For newly added schools or replacement of old luminaires, Guangdong has only arranged sporadic supplementary projects in 2025, with single-school procurement amounts mostly under 500,000 yuan.

▌Underdeveloped regions: Fiscal pressure leads to 'prominent lag'

Non-compliant areas: Provinces such as Yunnan, Gansu, and Guizhou have completed only 30%-40% of the renovation tasks; schools in remote mountainous areas have not even started. For example: An announcement by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education in June 2025 showed that there are still 18,000 classrooms across the province awaiting renovation, mainly concentrated in Zhaotong and Wenshan prefectures.

Bottleneck constraints: County-level financial difficulties; a county education bureau official in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, revealed that 'the cost to renovate one classroom is about 12,000 yuan; for 1,200 classrooms in the entire county, this amounts to 14.4 million yuan, which the local finance cannot afford all at once'.

Dynamic updates on classroom lighting retrofit in selected provinces and cities

Scale: Covering 46 schools and 1,542 classrooms, total investment exceeds 20 million yuan; each classroom equipped with 14 eye-protection lamps (including 2 blackboard lamps), Uniformity of illuminance improved to above 0.8.

Progress: As of August 21, 2025, 1,328 rooms completed; remaining 214 rooms using "off-peak construction" (utilizing weekends and nights) to ensure completion before August 25 and ready for use at the start of school in September.

Mechanism: Introduce third-party testing agencies to inspect each room individually, upload data in real-time to the 'Yubei District Campus Lighting Supervision Platform', and establish a 3-year warranty file for .

▌ Anhui: The 'Three-Level Scheduling' Behind 12,000 Renovated Rooms

Results: As of August 2025, the province has cumulatively renovated 12,316 classrooms, benefiting over 500,000 students; cities such as Huaibei and Wuhu have included this in their municipal livelihood projects.

Method: Establish a mechanism of 'provincial pooled funds + municipal construction supervision + county-level implementation', hold scheduling meetings every half month, concentrate construction during winter and summer vacations to avoid affecting teaching.

Goal: Complete the renovation of counties in the Dabie Mountain area before National Day 2025, achieving 'full clearance'.

▌Shaanxi Yulin: 'Staged advancement' bridges the urban-rural gap

Current Status: In 2024, 295 schools and 5,289 classrooms were renovated. Remaining: 572 schools and 9,271 classrooms, of which rural schools account for 68%.

Strategy: Complete renovation of county-town schools in the first half of 2025; for example, Yuyang District invested 15 million yuan to renovate 8 urban schools; In the second half, coordinate "funds for improving weak links in compulsory education", providing a subsidy of 0.8 million yuan per classroom, with completion required by the end of December.

▌Funding: Overdrafting in Underdeveloped Regions

Some counties adopted a "staged payment" model, such as Dingxi City, Gansu Province, agreeing with enterprises to "pay 60% after acceptance and settle the remaining 40% over 2 years", resulting in reduced enthusiasm for enterprise participation.

▌Regional imbalance: The "last mile" is stuck in townships

Taking Yulin City as an example, the city level and strong economic counties such as Shenmu have completed 100%, while the renovation progress of township schools in counties like Jiaxian and Qingjian is less than 20%, mainly due to "construction teams unwilling to take small orders" and "high transportation costs".

▌Time window compression: Some areas are "rushing immediately after starting"

Tenders in provinces such as Xinjiang and Jilin will not be launched until March 2025, leaving only 6-7 months for construction. This requires simultaneous completion of Luminaire procurement, installation, and testing; some projects face a risk of "rushed construction".

我国教室照明标准体系以国家标准为基础，地方与团体标准为补充，形成“底线保障+品质提升”的分级框架。国家标准《中小学教室采光和照明卫生标准》（GB7793-2010）为强制底线，规定课桌面照度≥300lx、黑板≥500lx，眩光值≤19，覆盖全国所有学校改造。

On this basis, Shanghai, Guangdong, and Jiangsu provinces have issued provincial mandatory local standards with stricter indicators: Shanghai DB31/T539-2020 requires glare rating ≤16 and automatic light sensing adjustment; Guangdong DB44/T2335—2021 divides into "basic tier + upgrade tier", adding full-spectrum luminaires and intelligent dimming; Jiangsu DB32/T4295-2022 improves uniformity of illuminance to 0.85 (desk) / 0.9 (blackboard) .

Group standards are voluntary references; Jiangsu T/JSIES 001—2021 and Shanghai T/SIEATA 000001-2024 refine technical requirements, while Zhejiang participates in the formulation of the national group standard T/JYBZ 005—2022. Currently, 28 provinces implement the national standard, 3 provinces overlay local standards, jointly promoting the upgrade of campus lighting environments from "compliance" to "high quality".

Overview of relevant standards

Classroom lighting environment is not just about "illumination"

The renovation of primary and secondary school classroom lighting in 2025 has entered its final sprint, over 95% of classrooms nationwide have completed upgrades to eye-protection lamps , the compliance rate for desk surface Illuminance reaches 100% . Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other three provinces were the first to implement higher local standards; technologies such as intelligent Dimming and anti-glare design are widely applied, effectively reducing students' visual fatigue.

After comprehensive acceptance at the end of the year, it will create a brighter and more comfortable learning light environment for tens of millions of students, safeguard visual health, and illuminate their path to growth.