Chinese kids' rendezvous with coding Xinhua | Updated: 2021-02-14 11:05 Share CLOSE Students compete in Robo Genius finals themed "Exploring Mars" in Beijing on Dec 20, 2020. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] BEIJING - Vita, a primary school student from Shanghai, has garnered some 220,000 subscribers on a popular Chinese video-sharing platform. The nine-year-old creates education videos on computer programming and has posted dozens of videos on the platform, with his video series receiving over 4 million views in China, home to the largest online community in the world. Vita is one of a generation that is not unfamiliar with artificial intelligence (AI). In an era of exponential technological growth, programming is deemed a survival skill akin to English speaking.