The "Craftsman of the Year" programme, jointly organised by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the China Media Group, and aiming to promote model workers and the value of labour and craftsmanship, announced its selections for 2019 recently.
The first special training session for “outstanding young teacher” candidates at the Open University of China (OUC) was held at Zhejiang University from 8 to 13 November, 2020. 101 candidates from the OUC system participated, and received certificates issued by Zhejiang University.
On the list of “excellent intellectuals” for October 2020, released recently by Tencent News, Zhu Qizhen, Kong Xiangbin and Zhu Junfeng, distinguished professors in the Quality Lectures by Famous Teachers programme of the Open University of China (OUC), were named.
The “Going Global” series of books of “Chinese for Industries”, featuring Chinese for vocational skills, was published recently.
While celebrating the release of the comprehensive reform plan, it is necessary to reflect on whether we are able to bring a respectable open university into the third decade of the 21st century and whether we are able to develop said university into one with high teaching quality, a good teaching level, and education that satisfies the needs of the people.
On 12 November 2020, the first Veterans Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition, sponsored by China’s Ministry of Veterans Affairs, ended in Guangzhou.
For Dangzhen Nima, a villager from Mangkang Village in Sichuan’s Ganzi-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, learning Mandarin as part of poverty-alleviation efforts in the village was so important that he called the work group stationed there to apologise that he could not attend the third training session.
Editor's note: Since the outbreak of Covid-19, students and former students of the Open University of China (OUC) have been courageously taking up their responsibilities and fighting the disease in accordance with local policies.