diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a29278116f6fdcb5623318d3f801dc50a9bc966f..f8124bc2851493bf17d70b39c9e86a9c2641e68a 100644
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+[submodule "PaddleNLP/language_representations_kit/ERNIE"]
+	path = PaddleNLP/language_representations_kit/ERNIE
+	url = https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/ERNIE
 [submodule "PaddleRL"]
 	path = PaddleRL
 	url = https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PARL