The “One College Student Per Village” programme at the Open University of China (OUC) is one of the laureates of the 2020 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education. The innovative programme provides an example of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and associated technologies can create quality education opportunities for learners from remote areas and improve social and economic development in rural communities.
On 25 March 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) cooperated with Beijing Yuying School to hold training for Mongolian teachers at the invitation of the UNESCO Beijing Office and the Institute of Teachers’ Professional Development of Mongolia (ITPD). The goal of the training was to share experiences and practices of epidemic prevention and control, as well as “undisrupted learning during school closures” in primary and middle schools in the context of COVID-19 in China.
On 25 March 2021, Wang Jianjun, a member of the Party Group of China’s National Health Commission, and executive deputy director and chair of the China National Committee on Ageing (CNCA), along with Wu Yushao and Xiao Caiwei, members of the Party Group of the CNCA and CNCA vice chairs, took part in an investigative tour in the Open University of China (OUC), and held discussions with Jing Degang, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the OUC; Liu Chen, vice secretary of the Party Committee and president of the OUC University for Older Adults; and department personnel.
Spring is conscription time. On the evening of 18 March 2021, a coach holding a banner that read, "A Warm Send-off for the First Group of New Spring Recruits from Jinyun County" led new recruits to their barracks. Ding Jianhong, a vigorous young man, and a Law undergraduate at Lishui Radio and TV University (Lishui RTVU), class of Autumn 2019, was one.
A ceremony to celebrate the establishment of Shenzhen Open University (Shenzhen OU), alongside an exhibition of the achievements of the 40th anniversary of Shenzhen Radio and TV University (Shenzhen RTVU), was held on 20 March 2021.
To get first-hand information about frontline teaching as well as measures to control Covid-19 in the new semester at a grassroots study centre, vice president Lin Yu of the Open University of China (OUC) visited the Xinhua Computer Study Centre at the OUC Experimental School on 17 March 2021. The delegation also included Guo Qingchun, dean of the Experimental School; Liu Ying, its vice dean; Lv Qian of the Department of External Education and Training; and Wang Hui, principal of the Tianxiang branch school of the OUC Experimental School.
In order to learn and put into effect the guiding principles of the important remarks delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the meeting to launch the campaign for Party history learning and education, put into effect the arrangements and requirements for the Party history learning campaign put forward by the Leading Party Group of the Ministry of Education (MOE), and put into effect the “first-line rule” .
Recently, Sun Jiangtao, a teacher in the School of Social Work of the Faculty of Political Science and Law at the Open University of China (OUC), was named one of the “Top 100” Chinese social workers for 2020 during an event honouring social workers held by China Philanthropy Times. Sun Jiangtao was also named an "Excellent Social Worker in the Capital" in the 7th "Looking for the Most Beautiful Social Workers in the Capital" campaign in Beijing.