Yinchuan, 4 July 2025 - FAN Xianrui, Vice President of the Open University of China (OUC) and the Seniors University of China (SUC), visited Yinchuan, Ningxia to conduct a survey on elderly education and attended the promotion meeting for the construction of the Ningxia Branch of SUC.
CAI Guoying, President of the Ningxia Elderly University; LIU Yansheng, Member of the Education Working Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region; CAI Guiping, Deputy Director of the Department of Retired Cadres under the Autonomous Region’s Party Committee; LIU Wei, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ningxia Open University; ZHOU Zhen, President of the Ningxia Open University; and DING Li, Executive Vice President of the Ningxia Elderly University attended the event.
Vice President FAN stated that the joint construction of the Ningxia Branch of SUC by the Ningxia Open University and the Ningxia Elderly University is a significant step in exploring a distinctive Ningxia-style elderly education model and promoting the reform and development of elderly education across the region. The headquarters of SUC will strongly support the construction of the Ningxia Branch, driving the formation of a new educational pattern featuring collaborative course development, shared teacher training and research, joint achievement display, interconnected platforms, and joint promotion of exemplary practices.
LIU Yansheng noted that the Education Department of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region will take a new starting point to promote the high-quality development of the Ningxia Branch of the Ningxia Elderly University in four key areas: “upholding the correct educational direction, improving teaching quality, strengthening information technology construction, and enhancing service support.”
CAI Guiping said that the Department of Retired Cadres under the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region’s Party Committee will adhere to the concept of “coordinated development and win-win cooperation.” It will learn from the SUC’s scientific educational model, advanced educational philosophy, high-quality course resources, and mature distance-learning platform to vigorously promote the elderly education in the Autonomous Region towards higher standards, higher levels, and higher quality.
LIU Wei indicated that under the guidance of SUC, the Ningxia Open University will focus on strengthening ideological and political leadership, integrating teaching resources, and creating high-quality elderly activities. It will work jointly with the Ningxia Elderly University to operate the Ningxia Branch of SUC effectively, paving a path to happy retirement for the elderly in the Autonomous Region.
FAN Xianrui and LIU Yansheng presented a plaque to the Ningxia Branch of SUC. The Ningxia Open University and the Ningxia Elderly University signed a cooperation agreement.
Visit to the University’s History Museum
Visit to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Centre
Visit to the School of Health Management and Social Services
The delegation also visited the History Museum, Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Centre, and School of Health Management and Social Services at Ningxia Open University, as well as the teaching facilities and operational conditions of the Ningxia Elderly University.
By SUC