On the morning of the 28th, the 2018 World Education Day Conference was grandly opened at the Hyatt Regency Jinan Hotel. The conference was co-sponsored by the UNESCO Knowledge Economy Cooperation Alliance, the National Foreign Experts Bureau Foreign Talent Resource Pool, the Shandong International Talent Exchange Association, the Boao Asia Education Beijing Forum, and the Beijing Global Talent Exchange Promotion Association.

September 28th is the birthday of Confucius. Confucius was the great thinker, educator, politician and founder of the Confucian school in ancient China. He was also recognized as an educator and thinker in the world. UNESCO is named "the world's top ten cultural celebrities". The conference is scheduled to open on the birthday of Confucius every year. It is also a promotion of Chinese traditional culture, more emphasis on caring education and education.
The conference was divided into the opening ceremony, the Nobel Prize Masters Forum and the dialogue between the masters and the world's top school principals, the New Education Leadership Forum, the “Internet +” Education Forum, the New Policy Forum for Studying Abroad, the Science and Art Ivy League Quality Education Forum, and Zhongfen Education Forum, Global Education Policy Interpretation Forum, K-12 Education Forum, International Language Training and Language Education Forum, Medical and Health Education Forum, Humanities and Social Sciences Education Forum, Higher Education Forum, Silk Road Education Innovation and Cooperation Forum, etc. with a total of nearly 150 special reports. In addition, there is also a non-rich event such as the Ritual Confucius Ceremony, the Nobel Prize Winners, Jinan University and Institutions, and the International Guest Welcome Dinner. A total of nearly 1,000 guests from around 40 countries and regions attended the conference.