Chinese Ruanion EDI launches Formind identity: bet on vocational education and artificial intelligence extends to Saudi Arabia

Ruanion EDI Technology, a Nasdaq-listed company, announced the launch of the official website for its new commercial identity, the Formind Group, in a move aimed at repositioning its business internationally by directly linking artificial-intelligence applications with education and industrial-skill development. The company will retain its legally registered entity and its ticker on the U.S. market until administrative procedures, shareholder approvals and market-operator consent are completed, while the new brand serves as a umbrella for promoting technological solutions and delivering them to global markets through commercial and institutional partnerships that combine software provision, training programmes, implementation and ongoing support.

Linking technology and specialized trainingIt forms the cornerstone of the operating model led by the partner institution and chief executive Maggie Foo, together with chief technology officer Calvin Chao. The group aims to replicate its solutions and lower deployment costs by drawing on experience from its previous projects. The software suite includes the HanLink platform for AI-driven Chinese language learning with teacher-specific tools, and the Yizo platform aimed at planning and producing content in supervised university-level learning environments to reduce wasteful generation and unnecessary rework, in addition to smart campus services and the Cognie AI system applied in infrastructure sectors, such as archiving highway-engineering records in the Ningxia region and matching them with original documents.

The group’s international roadmap reveals a notable focus on expanding in the Saudi market, where activities began with school pilots and university collaborations to deploy HanLink, followed by a local commercial marketing phase through Link Door Smart, a subsidiary of the company’s leadership. The group bolstered its presence by establishing a regional headquarters via Soft Cloud Smart Technology, drafting a cooperation framework with Wadi Mecca, and partnering with Intersect Holding to develop research opportunities, localize technology and vocational training. These partnerships are directed toward industrial education through a proposed project to set up a Saudi Institute for Automobiles and New Energy Vehicles in cooperation with Chang’an Any and Intersect, to open career and academic pathways linking engineering studies with smart applications in the electric-vehicle sector, subject to final approvals, financing and agreements.

Localizing industrial skills alongside software exportIt also aligns with the company’s expansion into other markets, through agreements for student services and recruitment with University of the City in Malaysia via its local subsidiary, and a research trial in collaboration with the Chinese Language Education Center at the Teachers College of Columbia University in the United States to assess the performance of AI-supported learning.

For educational leaders and vocational-training managers in the Gulf, this expansion illustrates a practical shift in the nature of investment in education technologies; the focus is no longer limited to purchasing ready-made digital-platform licences, but requires partnerships that obligate global firms to establish local entities and embed their software into real industrial value chains such as electric vehicles and infrastructure management. If you are leading digital-transformation and job-skill initiatives in the region, your move should be to require the transfer of operational knowledge and the inclusion of field skills within AI-solution procurement contracts, to ensure workforce qualification and the localization of technical competence alongside the introduction of modern tools.