East Asia Lifelong Learning Community 2020: Objective, Organization and Operation

Nowadays increasing emphasis has been placed on the positive role of human capital in promoting economic growth and social prosperity. While East Asia has firmly established and actively taken on its role in global development, a good implementation of lifelong learning to promote human capital and integrate educational resource on the whole regional level is crucial to its future. We explore the concept of life-long learning and point out the challenge to East Asia in building a regional lifelong learning system. To meet the challenge and realize the idea of lifelong learning, we design the framework of East Asia Lifelong Learning Community 2020 by presenting the objective, organization and operation for this regional cooperative system, in which universities and enterprises will be the main actors to make it work.