Beijing, 17 April 2025 - The Planning and Management Office of the National Publication Foundation (NPF) has released its 2025 funding list, which includes Innovators’ Voice: The Journey to Original Technology Innovation and Breakthroughs, a key outcome of the Academician Lecture Series Project hosted by the Open University of China (OUC).
This project was co-developed by the Bureau of Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Tan Kah Kee Science Award Foundation, and OUC. OUC’s Learning Resources Department led the implementation and OUC Multimedia Press handled the production and publishing. The project profiles 18 pioneering academicians and experts who achieved groundbreaking technological innovations. Through interviews, narratives, and multimedia content, it explores their motivations, methodologies, and insights on “why and how to innovate” and translates their complex scientific journeys in pursuing original innovation into accessible lessons. By highlighting these scientists’ visionary patriotism and relentless innovation, the project inspires societal respect for labour, knowledge, talent, and creativity, thereby advancing China’s innovation-driven development.
Since 2012, OUC’s Academician Lecture Series Project has engaged 130 academicians and over 400 distinguished experts to deliver lectures. It has developed 60 series, 352 courses, 920 episodes, and a total of 23,000 minutes of premium scientific and educational resources that has earned over 50 provincial and ministerial-level awards. This marks the 17th time the initiative’s outputs have received NPF recognition.
About NPF
As China’s third state-level fund after the National Social Science Fund of China and National Natural Science Foundation of China, NPF supports high-quality public-interest publications. In 2025, its portfolio will fund 559 projects (primarily books, with select audiovisual and digital publications). OUC’s inclusion underscores its pivotal role in advancing public science literacy and building a learning society.
By Learning Resources Department, Library (University History Museum)