In 2010, the Chinese government announced the “National Plan for Medium and Long Term Education Reform and Development” (国家中长期教育改革和发展规劃纲要). In 2019, it launched “China’s Education Modernization 2035” (中国教育现代化2035) and accelerated its promotion of ‘education modernization’ as a national strategy to build a great modern socialist country by 2050. This paper analyzes the impact of artificial intelligence issues which have arisen since 2017 on the development and strategizing of education modernization, taking the view that education informatization is the main driving force behind modernization.