BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Education said it will further promote the digitization of vocational education, higher education and continuing education resources.

The ministry will build a database for vocational education resources in 2019 and push for the sharing of quality vocational education resources, according to a statement on its website.

It will complete the certification of 800 national-level online university courses that are open to the public.

It will also explore new methods to digitize resources of continuing education, expanding the coverage of quality college education resources and increasing the number of online courses offered by the Open University of China, a new type of university supported by modern information technologies.