The Open University of China (OUC) has recently established the "Open Learning Centre, São Paulo, Brazil", according to information from OUC.
São Paulo - LIU Xuanxuan, Vice President of the Open University of China (OUC), led a delegation to attend the China - Brazil University Presidents' Dialogue in São Paulo, Brazil. During the event, Vice President LIU Xuanxuan signed an MOU with DU Taisheng, Vice President of China Agricultural University (CAU), and Ricardo Trindade, Director of China Centre at the University of São Paulo (USP), which was witnessed by WANG Jiayi, Vice Minister of Education of China, and Marcos Vinicius David, Deputy Minister of Brazil's Ministry of Education. The three parties jointly unveiled the "Open Learning Centre, São Paulo, Brazil".
According to the statistics, China had over 310 million people aged 60 and above, accounting for approximately 22% of its total population, till the end of 2024. With socioeconomic development and rising living standards, a growing number of seniors are seeking continued education to enrich their cultural and spiritual lives. Elderly education not only makes seniors' lives more vibrant but also injects new vitality into the "silver economy."
The 2025 World Digital Education Conference was held in Wuhan, Hubei Province from 14 to 15 May 2025. During one of the parallel sessions themed "Explore Digitally, Act Wisely: Empowering Large-Scale Personalized Lifelong Learning through Digital Intelligence", the Open University of China (OUC) officially unveiled its new-generation information infrastructure, the Digital Foundation System, a smart platform designed to support lifelong learning for all.
The mutual shaping of technological advancement and social transformation has brought a significant historical opportunity for building a learning society in the digital age. At the National Conference on Education, President XI Jinping emphasised to thoroughly implement the national education digitalisation strategy, expand access to high-quality educational resources, and enhance public services for lifelong learning.
On the morning of 31 March 2025, Academician ZHONG Nanshan, recipient of the “Medal of the Republic,” member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Director of the Guangzhou Laboratory, delivered the “First Lecture” titled “Wellness in Your Hands: Shaping a Healthier Future” for the Seniors University of China (SUC), imparting the new concept of proactive health to older adults nationwide.
At the 2024 National Conference on Education, President XI Jinping stressed the thorough implementation of the national strategy for the digitalisation of education, to expand the coverage of quality educational resources and to improve public services for lifelong learning, which was a systematic deployment for the construction of a learning society, highlighting the crucial role of digital empowerment in lifelong education within the overall framework of building a leading country in education.
On 28 December, reporters learned from the Ministry of Education (MOE）that the MOE had recently convened the 2024 National Education Digitalisation Work Summary Meeting. It was announced at the meeting that the Smart Education of China ∙ Lifelong Education Platform had been officially launched.