From 24-28 December 2019, at the invitation of Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University (PSU) in Kazakhstan, a delegation of four members from the Open University of China(OUC) visited Almaty and Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, and discussed cooperation with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Almaty) JSC, PSU, and NFC Kazakhstan LTD, a part of China Nonferrous Metal Construction Corporation Ltd. subordinate to China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group(CNMC) based in Kazakhstan.

From 27-28 December 2019, the first meeting of the third session of the Academic Degree Evaluation Committee of the Open University of China (OUC) for the 2019 autumn semester, along with a seminar on the application for master's degree conferral rights was held in Beijing. After a round of deliberation, the meeting decided to confer 2,648 graduates, including Zhao Ran, with OUC bachelor's degrees, and reached a consensus on the application for master’s degree conferral rights.

From 16-20 December 2019, the media delegation for the OUC's ‘Realising Dreams of Further Education' visited the OUC branches in Guangdong and Fujian for in-depth interviews related to this programme; it was accompanied by the OUC Publicity Department (Press Centre) and the Office for Industrial-worker Education. The interviews were conducted with both enterprise personnel and students in order to determine the changes the programme had brought about in the lives of workers.

During the Second China Science and Fiction Film Festival Week, which closed on 16 December 2019, The Origin and Evolution of Life, produced by the Open University of China (OUC) and published by the OUC Multimedia Press, stood out from nearly 400 works and won a bronze medal.

From 20-22 December 2019, a meeting to summarise the second batch of pilot programs for multimodal teaching reform in Public English at the Open University of China (OUC), as well as a work meeting for the central teaching and research group of English majors and public English were held in Baoding City, Hebei Province. Yang Xiaotang, vice president of the OUC, and the directors responsible for teaching in relevant branches attended the meeting, which was presided over by Liu Zhanrong, director of the Faculty of International Languages and Cultures.

Editor's notes: A photography contest titled "Moving Moments" at the Open University of China (OUC) ended recently, with 10 first prizes, 20 second prizes, 30 third prizes and 51 awards of excellence being given. The works in this exhibit record all different kinds of important moments, transmit positive energy, and reflect the way OUC students carefully observe life and actively serve society. The award-winning works will be published on the OUC portal.

On 28 November, 2019, guided by the Coordinating Office of the National Reading Activity Organisation, the 2019 National Reading Annual Conference of the National Publishing and Library Field, sponsored by the Library Society of China (LSC), the Taofen Foundation, and other organisations, was held in Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province. The OUC’s assistance in building the OUC “Taofen” library, part of its contribution to national poverty eradication, was recognised there, and a speech was given by an OUC representative.

A five-member delegation from the Open University of China (OUC) visited the headquarters of Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA) and its Barcelona campus from 10-11 December 2019, to discuss cooperation on the construction of football education courses and preliminary preparations for the joint construction of an online Confucius Institute on the Internet, and to learn about the experiences of UDIMA’s regional teaching centre in teaching management and curriculum resource construction.