COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN
NATIONAL CENTER FOR AUDIO / VISUAL EDUCATION AND
TENGTU CULTURE & EDUCATION ELECTRONICS DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD.
ON CARRYING OUT " OPERATION MORNING SUN--PHASE II "
The implementation of " Operation Morning Sun " ( the Plan ) by both
Parties since September 20, 2000 has achieved very good results in many respects
to date. In order to expedite this Plan, the National Center for Audio / Visual
Education ( hereinafter " NCAVE " ) and Tengtu Co. have reached the following
agreement on the implementation of the second phase of this Plan:
1. Both Parties have agreed that this Cooperation Agreement is the second
phase of " Operation Morning Sun ". The purposes of this Plan remain the
same, i.e. :
1) to coordinate with the Ministry of Education in carrying out its
Contemporary Distance Learning Project ;
2) to promote the popularization of Information Technology to elementary /
secondary education ;
3) to accelerate the realization of the goals for IT-based education ;
4) to provide services for the establishment of th Demonstration Project of
Relief to Disadvantaged Regions through distance learning by the
Ministry of Education, and for the establishment of the Distance
Learning Resources Service Center under the NCAVE.
2. In order to realize the above goals related to the secon phase of "
Operation Morning Sun ", NCAVE, distance learning specialists and Tengtu
will continue to form a Leading Group and establish under it an Office; the
said Leading Group shall draft and confirm a plan for implementing "
Operation Morning Sun ".
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Under the direct leadership of the Leading Group, the said Office shall
be responsible for taking specific measures to implement the project.
3. The main contents of "Operation Morning Sun" and the ke tasks for the year
of 2001 are as follows:
1) Based on the purposes of "Operation Morning Su and under the leadership
of the Leading Group, both Parties shall endeavor to launch the "
Operation Morning Sun " plan in approximately twenty provinces
throughout the Nation and will put more efforts into remote districts.
2) The NCAVE will issue and distribute under its name the contents of the
working plan for the year 2001 under " Operation Morning Sun - Phase II
" to the Provincial Centers for Audio / Visual Education throughout the
Nation. Both Parties shall coordinate in an active manner and urge the
Educational Departments at various administrative levels and Provincial
Centers for Audio / Visual Education to fully exercise their
organizational roles in order to achieve 10,000 to 15,000 schools to
participate in this Plan by the end of December of 2001.
" Operation Morning Sun " shall be carried out in the educational technology
experimental schools under the Ministry of Education, and the related
provincial-level experimental schools and other qualified schools that are
equipped with basic computer equipment. Relevant training will be carried out in
the training centers authorized by the NCAVE and Provincial-Level Centers for
Audio / Visual Education.
4. Under the leadership of NCAVE, Tengtu shall provide the following
substantial support and services to " Operation Morning Sun " :
1) Tengtu shall donate a total worth of XXX 000 Xxxxxxx of copies of
Microsoft System Software (NT Server 4.0, SQL Server 7.0, Exchange
Server 5. 5, Proxy Server 2.0 and including 30 legitimate User Licenses
) to those schools which shall install and use the Tengtu Application
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Platform ( any of the Tengtu networked classroom, networked campus,
distance platform etc).
2) The Tengtu Application Platform shall be installed in the 10,000 to
15,000 schools at a special favorable price of RMB 20,000 per package.
The main functions shall include:
i. The compulsory courses and examination related to information
technology (IT) education as stipulated by the Ministry of
Education;
ii. Support teacher-student interaction, school-family interaction,
school-school interaction, and school-resource center interaction;
iii. Setting up of distance learning platform and conduct distant
learning ;
iv. Functions of multimedia electronic classroom and networked classroom
or networked campus ;
v. Establishment of campus digital teaching resources database,
including the 3G teaching resources ;
vi. Free upgrading and installation.
3) Tengtu will also provide to the schools legitimate licenses of Windows
98 (Version 2) and of Office 2000 at a special favorable price of XXX
000 per set.
4) Tengtu Application Platform shall be produced under the supervision of
NCAVE.
5. The revenue from the sales of the associated products under " Operation
Morning Sun " ( Tengtu Application Platform, Windows 98, Office 2000, etc.
) will be earmarked to NCAVE under the leadership of the Leading Group of
this Project and be deposited in a separate account that will be opened
under the name of NCAVE. Then, in accordance with the allocation proportion
agreed with Tengtu,
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the remaining balance will be transferred to Tengtu. Tengtu shall be
responsible for all the costs incurred in the promotion and sale of
products related to " Operation Morning Sun ".
6. Benefit allocation between NCAVE and Tengtu shall be as follows : NCAVE
will obtain 10% of the Gross Revenue from the sales of the Tengtu
Application Platforms and to be settled annually.
7. Benefit allocation for Windows 98 ( Version 2 ) and Office 2000 is as
follow : NCAVE shall obtain 40% of the Gross Revenue while the local
Centers for Audio / Visual Education will obtain the remaining 60 %. The
accounts will be settled annually.
8. Since the sales of the products related to " Operation Morning Sun "
involves profit shared by the Centers for Audio / Visual Education, such
matter shall be confirmed after it is reviewed by the Leading Group. 9.
Tengtu will, under the direction of the Leading Group an working in
conjunction with Microsoft and Legend Digital China Company, train
10,000 to 15,000 IT System Administrators for the 10,000 to 15,000
schools.
10. Both parties have decided to adopt the following working systems:
1) The Leading Group and the principal members of the Office under the
Leading Group shall hold meetings on a regular basis to discuss the
relevant works involved.
2) Both parties shall work in an active manner to formulate details and
supporting measures for implementing the Plan, and shall see to it
that they are carried out in practice.
3) Before February 15, 2001, both Parties shall make contact with
various Provincial Centers for Audio / Visual Education to
coordinate the implementation of this phase of the Plan.
4) This phase of the " Operation Morning Sun " shall be completed in
March 2002. Specialists will be organized to conduct commissioning
in phases.
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5) In June, 2002, pursuant to the request of the NCAVE, trophies,
encouragement and commendations will be issued to those Provincial
Centers for Audio / Visual Education and schools that have
distinguished themselves in the implementation of the Plan, and
measures will be adopted for promoting the recognition of these
pacesetters.
11. Matters involving added-value-tax invoices will be handled in
accordance with the supplementary agreement between NCAVE and Tengtu.
12. This agreement shall be valid till December 30, 2002.
13 This agreement, made in sextuplicate, shall take effect after being
signed and chopped by the relevant Parties
The National Center for Audio / Visual Education
Representative :
February 13, 2001
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Tengtu Culture & Education Electronics Development Co., Ltd.
Representative : Zhang Fanqi
February 13, 2001
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