On 4 January 2023, the “2022 OUC Top Ten News Stories” was released.

With the approval of the Central Institutional Organisation Commission, the Leading Party Group of the Ministry of Education decided to unveil the Seniors University of China at the Open University of China (OUC).

On 20 May, the OUC Lifelong Education Platform was officially launched. The platform has accumulated 626,000 course resources with 610,000 registered users.

On 19 November 2022, the second “High-level Forum on Research in Contemporary Chinese Marxism 2022” was held in Beijing, sponsored by the Open University of China (OUC) and organised by the OUC School of Marxism. Thirty researchers from well-known universities and research institutions were appointed. The establishment of the Research Institute of Contemporary Chinese Marxism of the Open University of China was announced at the forum.

The OUC excelled in the 8th China International “Internet +” College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and won seven gold medals in the vocational-education category, accounting for 14% of total gold medals.

The OUC School of Art was established, aiming to explore new talent formation model integrating aesthetic education, ideological and political education, and disciplinary majors, as well as to promote students’ all-round development. Famous contemporary painter Xu Li visited the OUC to guide work at its School of Art.

The OUC Education Foundation of Beijing was established.

OUC debuts at the World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference, promoting reskilling and upskilling for lifelong learning.

From 26 to 29 September, the OUC held the first training session for ideological and political education, an initiative to fully implement the high-quality development of ideological and political education in open education. Around 100 backbone teachers of the OUC system gathered to complete collective lesson preparations, advancing the guiding principle of the 20th National Congress of the CPS into their ideological and political classes.

The opening ceremony of the 2022 National Lifelong Learning Week was held on 30 Nov. 2022. The OUC promotes lifelong learning for all via information technology.

The OUC has been awarded the honour of “Outstanding Leadership” by the organs and units directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education for three years in a row.

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