On 12 October 2021, the National Conference on Educational Materials, and commendations of the winners of the first National Award for Educational Material Construction (NAEMC), took place in Beijing, where Sun Chunlan, vice premier of the State Council and director of the National Committee for Educational Materials (NCEM), delivered a speech. The NECM commended 999 textbooks, 99 collectives, and 200 individual winners.
On 13 October 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) and the Higher Education Teaching Evaluation Centre of the Ministry of Education (MOE) jointly launched a class to train teaching evaluators in its branches.
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.
Having completed scholarship evaluation for 2020, the Open University of China (OUC), after verification and public announcement, decided to grant OUC scholarships to 21,999 students. 19,762 students were awarded the OUC scholarship, and 2,237 students won the OUC special scholarship for the “Long March Belt” Education Project Targeted at Alleviating Poverty.
Since 10 September 2021, with local Covid-19 cases reported in Putian, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other cities in Fujian Province, the work of controlling infection has quickly escalated to its highest level there.
In order to promote the construction of disciplines within it, the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Open University of China (OUC), along with the Economics Sub-Committee of the OUC Academic Committee, held an academic salon titled "New Finance, New Forms of Business, and New Trends" on the morning of 28 September 2021.
On 28 September 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) and the University of London (UoL) connected via video transmission for the opening ceremony of a 12-week online tutor-training programme aiming to help OUC teachers with distance teaching, design of online classes, evaluation, and other areas, and provide a platform for their collaboration. Over 250 teachers from the OUC headquarters and more than 40 branches are participating.
On 6 April 2021, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris officially announced that the Open University of China’s (OUC) “One College Student Per Village” programme was awarded the 2020 King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education (UNESCO ICT in Education Prize, hereinafter referred to as the King Hamad Prize). This is the highest prize for education informatisation in the United Nations system and the first time that China has received the prize.