A Chinese software company announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to help popularize the Office productivity package in Chinese schools.
Tengtu International said its Beijing subsidiary, the largest supplier of educational software for China"s elementary and secondary schools, will develop an "Education Resource Kit for Office" to integrate the company"s educational software and services with Microsoft"s Office 2003. Tengtu provides education software and distance-learning services to more than 35,000 Chinese schools, with 17.5 million students. The company was selected by the country"s Ministry of Education to run the main education portal and distance-learning network for the national school system.