In April 2021, the OUC “One College Student Per Village” Programme was awarded the 2020 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education, the UN’s highest award for IT application in education.

Recently, the outstanding deeds of Zhu Shijie, a graduate of Ningbo Open University (Ningbo OU) and a workshop supervisor for the bridge-crane class of Ningbo Beilun No. 3 Container Terminal (Zhejiang Seaport Group), were selected for mention in a textbook of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

At 10 a.m. on 6 September, 2021, deputy Party secretary of the Open University of China (OUC) Liu Chen delivered a speech entitled “Political Manifesto of the Grand CPC Party to Realise the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation” at the opening of the first class of the new semester via live video broadcast to all the teachers and students of the OUC system.

The Open University of China (OUC) recently convened the First Plenary Session of its Third Academic Committee.

The Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting to promote its key work for 2021 on 3 September. In addition to spreading the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s recent  guiding principles on promoting key work, the meeting deployed the university’s work for the autumn semester. Jing Degang, secretary of the OUC Party Committee and president, presided over and addressed the meeting.

Recently, Mr. Zhang, who works for a small education-technology company, easily obtained his personal "credit-bank" educational data via the "Learning in Zhejiang" page of the "Zhejiang Affairs Handling (Zheliban)" app.

A volume entitled Beyond Distance Education: Cutting-Edge Perspectives on the Future of Global Open Universities, with Jing Degang, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the Open University of China (OUC), as chief editor, has been published and delivered by the OUC Press to global authors and received unanimous recognition and favourable comments.

Recently, the Department of Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced a list of publications selected from university presses around the country in 2021. China Spirit, which was edited and produced by the Multimedia Press of the Publishing & Media Group of the Open University of China (OUC), was successfully selected for the list.