Based on a March 9 Bloomberg News report:

Schools in Beijing will introduce artificial intelligence courses to
primary and secondary students to strengthen China’s goal to dominate
the sector.

From the coming fall semester, which starts Sept. 1, schools in China’s
capital will offer at least eight hours of AI classes per academic year,
the Beijing Municipal Education Commission said in a statement on its
website. Schools can run them as standalone courses or integrate them
with existing curriculum, such as information technology and science, it
said.

Read more at these sources:
https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/china-to-roll-out-ai-courses-for-kids-to-dominate-the-sector-19570889.htm
https://fortune.com/2025/03/10/china-school-children-ai-deepseek-liang-wengfeng-estonia-uk-america-south-korea/
https://www.allaboutai.com/ai-news/beijing-bets-on-ai-future-kids-to-be-trained-in-ai-from-a-young-age/