On the afternoon of 8 October 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) held the Third Special Report Meeting on Party History Learning and Education and CPC Party Committee Theory Learning Centre Group Extended Learning Meeting.

The meeting invited Deng Chuanhuai, director of the Policy and Regulations Department of the Ministry of Education, to give a special report to lead Party members and cadres in an in-depth study and help them to understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech delivered on 1 July. It enabled Party members to understand the essence of the spirit, grasp the core principles, and further promote the study of Party history.

Deng Chuanhuai pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was magnificent, profound in thought, sincere, and full of strength. It proclaimed the bright prospects of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation to the world, pointing out the way forward and providing fundamental rules for striving for the realisation of China’s second centenary goal. The important spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech can be learned from one theme, one spirit, one announcement, one journey, one call, one entrustment, one signal, and one concept. One theme is to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; one spirit is the great founding spirit of the Party; one announcement is to achieve the first centenary goal and move towards the second centenary goal; one journey is to build China into a great modern socialist country in all aspects; one call is to call on all CPC Party members to bring greater glory to the Party and the people; one entrustment is to encourage the Chinese youth in the new era to live up to the promise of their youth and the expectations of our times, our Party, and our people; one signal is to accelerate the modernisation of national defence and the armed forces; one concept is to promote the shared human values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom.

Deng Chuanhuai emphasised that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech delivered on 1 July systematically explained the “Nine Musts” that we must firmly grasp in order to realise the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Together with the reality of education work, it is necessary to combine the study and implementation of the “Nine Musts” with General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statement on education, the “Nine Persistences,” to fully implement the Party’s educational policy, implement the fundamental task of virtue cultivation, and actively fulfil the original mission of educating people and talent for the country, cultivating more new people for the new era who can take on the responsibility of national rejuvenation for the Party and the country.

Secretary of the Party Committee and president of the OUC Jing Degang presided over the meeting and called on all comrades to learn and deeply understand the context of Party history and the significance, rich content, core principles, and practical requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s 1 July speech, and to focus on learning, thinking, understanding, and practicing. Efforts should be made to cultivate people with great morality, to overcome difficulties, to pay close attention to implementation, and to strictly administer the Party in an all-round way. It is necessary to further emancipate the mind, deepen reforms, maintain a fighting attitude, focus on the high-quality development of open universities, and strive to build “four platforms” to make greater contributions to the construction of an education system that serves lifelong learning for all.

School Party committee members, members of the leadership team, secretaries and branch committees of the Party (general) branch, cadres at the division level, and the heads of enterprises directly affiliated with the OUC attended the on-site meeting. Other Party members participated in the meeting via live video.

Written by Xue Han; photos by Zhuge Huanyu and Zhang Jun