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).
While the prevention and control of the COVID-19 outbreak in China has been positively extended as of March 2020, the pandemic has been spreading rapidly overseas.
The year 2020 is a crucial time in securing a decisive victory in achieving the first Centenary Goal of building a moderately prosperous society. It is a significant year in the journey towards making China into a great modern socialist country. It is also the final year of the OUC Construction Plan, the OUC Comprehensive Reform Plan, and the OUC 13th Five-Year Plan for Reform and Construction, and the first year of implementing the guiding principles of the First Party Congress of the Open University of China.
On 30 March 2020, a ceremony was held at Haidian District Education Commission (HDEC) for the Open University of China (OUC) and China Education Development Foundation (CEDF) to donate epidemic prevention supplies to Haidian District Education Commission.
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.
In order to implement the spirit of a speech made by General Secretary Xi Jinping on 13 April 2018 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hainan Special Economic Zone, the No. 12 document of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Opinions on Further Promoting the Development of Community Education by Nine Ministries and Departments including the Ministry of Education, and with an aim to coordinating the development of community education in Hainan province and accelerating the construction of a lifelong education system, Hainan Community Education Steering Centre and Hainan Community Education University were formally established on the afternoon of 27 March 2020.
In order to provide a guarantee for practical teaching work in the spring semester of 2020 and help students to graduate smoothly while adhering to principle of cultivating talents on the basis of moral education and integrating labour education into the entire process of learner development, the Open University of China (OUC) recently issued a plan putting forward the following requirements for practical teaching and graduation work during the period of epidemic prevention and control.
In order to help teachers in the six autonomous prefectures in Qinghai Province enhance their educational qualifications, teaching abilities, and quality so that they can successfully run basic education, the Open University of China (OUC) and the OUC Qinghai Branch jointly launched and implemented the “Spring Rain Activity for Enhancing Rural Teachers’ Educational Qualifications and Teaching Abilities” (“Spring Rain Activity” in short).