A Radio and TV University (RTVU) Education Alliance for the Dual-City Economic Zone in Chengdu and Chongqing (hereinafter referred to as RTVU Education Alliance or the Alliance) was established in Chengdu on 8 June 2020.

The purpose of the alliance is to promote cooperation and exchange, accelerate sharing based on joint construction, achieve win-win results through complementarity, and drive the development of high-quality continuing education and lifelong education in the region.

Opening ceremony marking the establishment of the RTVU Education Alliance for the Dual-City Economic Zone (Chengdu and Chongqing) in the Sichuan and Chongqing Regions

The opening ceremony marking the establishment of the Alliance was held both online and offline

It is understood that the alliance, jointly initiated by Sichuan RTVU, Chongqing RTVU, and Chengdu RTVU, has attracted more than 260 RTVU branches (workstations) at the city (prefecture) and county (district) levels, as well as cooperative educational institutions including Sichuan Coal Group, in the Sichuan and Chongqing region to voluntarily join as member units.

Tan Wenjin, secretary of the Party Committee of Sichuan RTVU, giving a speech

According to the Charter of the Alliance, the three universities in Sichuan and Chongqing will give full play to the advantages of the RTVU system, encourage and promote education cooperation between RTVUs and related businesses and institutions in the region, push the connection between credit banks for lifelong education in the two places further, build a channel for lifelong learning in Sichuan and Chongqing, realise the integration of degree education and non-degree education in Sichuan and Chongqing, and construct a lifelong education system. They will actively construct a mechanism for mutual introduction and sharing, as well as dispatching and taking advantage of teachers in grass-roots RTVUs and cooperative education institutions within the three RTVUs in Sichuan and Chongqing, give impetus to exchanges and the appointment of outstanding talents and famous teachers and experts, and carry forward cross-university teaching and learning support services. They will conduct research into the applications of big data in lifelong and vocational education, hold a number of high-end academic forums, enhance their capacity for scientific research, collaborate in the innovation and development of RTVUs in the region, and take part in efforts to build a first-class open education research base in China. They will rely on the intelligence and resource-based advantages of RTVUs and cooperative education institutions in the two places, establish interest points for cooperation, work together to launch a number of cooperative projects, create a series of majors and courses with regional features, and establish a number of institutes integrating production, education and research that will serve the high-quality development of the economic zone in Chengdu and Chongqing. They will make a concerted effort to help the economic zones of the two cities construct new high ground for the opening-up strategy in inland China and a new base for international competition, so as to advance extensive and comprehensive cooperation between RTVUs at all levels in the Sichuan and Chongqing regions and the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU), and open universities in countries along the route of the Belt and Road Initiative. Meanwhile, RTVUs in Sichuan and Chongqing also plan to reach an agreement on intensifying management system innovations, building a governance system within universities, and working together to gain support from all parties, strengthen all-round cooperation, jointly promote the construction of open universities, boost collaboration and integration and pilot co-construction programs, push forward the integration and development of the region, and promote the modernisation of the governance system in universities and increase their governance capacity, in order to realise the transformation and upgrading of RTVUs in Sichuan and Chongqing.

Guo Qing, secretary of the Party Committee of Chongqing RTVU, giving a speech

Tan Wenjin, secretary of the Party Committee of Sichuan RTVU, said that Sichuan RTVU will deepen cooperation in the fields of big data application, scientific research, international exchange and cooperation, teaching team construction, and open university construction, accelerate the transformation, upgrading, and development of RTVUs in Chengdu and Chongqing, and better serve the construction of the economic zone in the two cities and the economic and social development of Sichuan and Chongqing. Guo Qing, secretary of the Party Committee of Chongqing RTVU, said that Chongqing RTVU will carry out wide-ranging, multi-level, project-based cooperation with Sichuan RTVU and Chengdu RTVU in order to realise the joint construction and sharing of high-quality education resources. Hu Weifeng from the Education Department of Sichuan Province pointed out that the alliance should develop a number of pilot projects for the reform of life-long education, community education, vocational education and training, and credit bank construction, and explore the construction and implementation of a regional RTVU education quality assurance system.

The Declaration on the Establishment of the Alliance was announced at the event

During the meeting, a ceremony to unveil the Alliance was held, the Alliance’s charter was reviewed and approved, and the Declaration on the Establishment of the Alliance was announced.

The Charter of the Alliance was reviewed and approved at the meeting

By OUC News Network

Reprinted from a report by Liu Zhongjun with Chinanews.com