Starting from 3 June 2020, the Open University of China (OUC) will launch a series of live open courses on the civil code, inviting well known teachers and experts to give detailed interpretations of the civil code. The public welfare courses with the goal of popularising the law among teachers and students, as well as social organisations, will be aired on many online live streaming platforms.

Editor’s Note: The third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the third session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) started in Beijing on 21 and 22 May 2020 respectively.

On the afternoon of 28 May 2020, the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) was closed.

How can we stimulate the vitality of online teaching via scientific adjustment and enable learning at home through multiple platforms? In order to cope with a sudden rise in the demand for home-based learning during the epidemic, Harbin Radio and TV University (RTVU) has enacted a series of powerful measures to provide services for more than 40,000 open education students and more than 100,000 citizens with online learning needs to study at home while school is closed during the period of epidemic prevention and control, which enabled education and teaching to develop at an accelerated rate.

Editor’s Note: The third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the third session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) started in Beijing on 21 and 22 May 2020 respectively.

Editor’s Note: The third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the third session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) started in Beijing on 21 and 22 May 2020 respectively.

Recently, the defence work for bachelor degree students from the Xi'an Branch in spring 2020 has been successfully completed. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Xi’an Branch has been making full use of information technology to continuously innovate its work model and optimise its live streaming platform. Following online live streamed classes, online cloud defences have been put into practice as scheduled. The online video defence for undergraduate students was conducted using multiple platforms such as smart classrooms, the Tencent meeting app, and WeChat groups in order to maintain quality in completing graduation defences.

The Open University of China (OUC) recently held a meeting, the first of its kind, for its first Majors Committee. Lin Yu, chairman of the first Majors Committee and vice president of the OUC, presided over the meeting, which was also attended by 17 vice chairmen of the committee either in person or via video.