The list of 2019 Open University of China (OUC) Outstanding Graduates has been selected and 538 students have been honoured with the title.

Since 10 April 2020, more than 117,000 students from Xinjiang Radio and TV University (Xinjiang RTVU) have logged into the integrated online learning platform on their computer or mobile phone and completed learning procedures such as registration, payment, course selection, online examinations, and uploading papers, realising the goal of convenient learning anytime, anywhere.

From 17 to 18 April 2020, remote graduation thesis defences for the first batch of students in the qualification promotion programme for students (officers and soldiers) posted to the Taiyuan Destroyer was successfully completed at Taiyuan Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC). This signifies that the programme has completed the whole process of OUC learner development and sent out its first batch of graduates.

With the arrival of World Reading Day on 23 April, the Open University of China (OUC) has launched the “2020 Initiative to Promote Reading for All" (full text attached at the end of the article), requiring all libraries within the OUC organisation system to take joint action to organise and participate in activities encouraging people to read and consciously take part in this initiative, so as to improve the literary environment on campus and help readers make achievements through reading.

The predecessor of the Open University of China (OUC) was China Central Radio and TV University (CCRTVU), which was founded with the advocacy of Comrade Deng Xiaoping in 1979.

Editor's note: In the battle with the COVID-19 epidemic, more and more fighters are coming to its front lines, including students and former students of the Open University of China (OUC). Like other fighters, no matter how ordinary, they are contributing what they can. Let's take a close look at some of their stories.

Since the outbreak of the COVID--19 epidemic, OUC Online Education and Technology, along with the Information Technology Department of the Open University of China (OUC), have provided strong support to the OUC's Hubei Branch in making use of information technology for online instruction.

4.36 million people, including employees, farmers, soldiers, disabled people, teenagers, senior students born in 1960s, people from China’s eastern coastal provinces, and people from ethnic minority areas or remote mountainous areas, make up the student body of the Open University of China (OUC).