The Sixth China Construction Bank Cup Hunan Internet Plus College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held recently. Since the competition was officially launched in June this year, a total of 110 colleges and universities in the province have signed up, submitting 77,057 projects. The Hunan Branch selected nine outstanding items from the 1,275 projects submitted after preliminary contests held in the branch schools of Hunan Radio and TV University (Hunan RTVU) and a selective competition within the Hunan RTVU system.

The OUC recently held a video deployment meeting for the 2020 teaching inspection work. Lin Yu, vice president of the OUC, Han Yi, director of the Quality Supervision Department, Ye Zhihong, director of the Academic Affairs Department, and Qi Wenxin, deputy director of the Academic Affairs Department attended the meeting.

The provincial-level rounds of Sixth China International Internet Plus College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition all concluded recently. After fierce competition, six projects from the Open University of China (OUC) were shortlisted for the national-level contest of the competition.

Recently, Beijing Open University (Beijing OU), a branch of the Open University of China (OUC), achieved good results in the vocational education competition category in the Beijing regional round of the Sixth China International Internet Plus College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. Two of the projects submitted by Beijing OU were awarded silver prizes and three projects were awarded bronze prizes.

To celebrate the 3rd annual Chinese Farmer Harvest Festival on 22 September 2020, the Open University of China (OUC) invited Shen Qun, a scientist with the China Agricultural Research System of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and a professor at China Agricultural University, to give a live-streaming lecture called “Open Discussion of Grain and Food Safety,

The Open University of China (OUC) held a work conference in Beijing from 21-22 September 2020. The theme of the conference was thoroughly studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on education and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and National Education Conference under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought with Chinese characteristics for a New Era.

The week from 14-20 September 2020 saw a national-level publicity campaign promoting network security. As an active response to the event, the Open University of China (OUC) held its own network security week on the theme of "Protecting Network Security for the People and by Relying on the People.

The Open University of China (OUC) held a mid-term exchange meeting for the third round of pilot programmes of multimodal teaching reform in public English in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, from 17 to 18 September 2020.