The integration of industry and teaching is a common concern for industry enterprises and universities. However, at present, industry-teaching integration is still largely spontaneous and at a low level. Both enterprises and colleges have found it hard to promote the process of industry-teaching integration.

From 6-10 May 2019, the Open University of China (OUC) held a training class for key finance major teachers with the aim of strengthening the construction of the teaching team of its finance majors, advancing the professional development of teachers, and improving the teachers’ teaching ability and political accomplishment.

On 25 April 2019, a seminar on the construction of the syllabus for the Rural Policies and Regulations course of the Open University of China (OUC) was held in the two-way video conference room at the OUC headquarters. Front-line teachers and curriculum editors from four branches of the OUC were invited to conduct in-depth discussions on the syllabus for the curriculum reconstruction process.

The first meeting of the Science and Engineering Sub-committee of the Second Academic Committee of the Open University of China (OUC) 2019 was held on 23-24 April 2019 in Dandong, Liaoning province.

On 9 May, 2019, Shandong Radio and TV University (Shandong RTVU) held a ceremony for the launch of the Open University for Older Adults (Shandong) of the Open University of China (OUC), and a work meeting on elderly education in the Shandong RTVU system.

Hu Renping is a member of the Communist Party of China. In September 2005, he entered the undergraduate Law programme at the Xinyu Branch of China Central Radio and TV University (now is known as the Open University of China, or OUC) in Jiangxi Province, and graduated in July 2007.

Chen Qiong graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Sun Yat-Sen University in 1986, and started to work for the Open University (OU) of Guangdong that same year.

From 18 to 19 April 2019, a seminar on teaching in the civil engineering and water conservancy major was held in Xiamen, Fujian Province. More than 70 people, including personnel in charge of the major and teachers engaged in pilot online teaching work from the Open University of China (OUC) system participated in the meeting.