On 23 February 2021, the Department of External Education and Professional Training of the Open University of China (OUC), together with the OUC Credit Bank, the Experimental School, and the Department of Student Affairs and Teacher Development, visited New Future Online Education Group (NFOEG) for a cooperative investigation into the Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) certification of innovation and entrepreneurship (hereinafter abbreviated as ESB certification).

Recently, a five-minute microlecture, "Birds and Nature", developed by the Open University of China (OUC), came first at the 9th Liangxi Popularisation of Forestry Science Awards.

Wang Gui, a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was born in October 1996 in Huanggang, Hubei Province.

About Yu Chunhe

Yu Chunhe began majoring in Administrative Management, a junior-college programme at the Siping division of the Jilin branch of the Open University of China(OUC), in autumn 2019.

About He Jianying:

He started working in October 2001, and became a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2019.

On  27 December 2020, the inauguration of Harbin Open University (Harbin OU), as well as a meeting to promote its construction and development, was held at the Friendship Palace, Harbin.

On 25 December 2020, Ningxia Open University (Ningxia OU) was officially unveiled. The new Internet Plus Education university will serve lifelong learning education for all in Ningxia and promote the construction of open, community and older adult education systems.

An opening ceremony for Sichuan Open University (Sichuan OU) was held in Chengdu on the morning of 30 December 2020.