With the arrival of World Reading Day on 23 April, the Open University of China (OUC) has launched the “2020 Initiative to Promote Reading for All" (full text attached at the end of the article), requiring all libraries within the OUC organisation system to take joint action to organise and participate in activities encouraging people to read and consciously take part in this initiative, so as to improve the literary environment on campus and help readers make achievements through reading.
The predecessor of the Open University of China (OUC) was China Central Radio and TV University (CCRTVU), which was founded with the advocacy of Comrade Deng Xiaoping in 1979.
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.
Since the outbreak of the COVID--19 epidemic, OUC Online Education and Technology, along with the Information Technology Department of the Open University of China (OUC), have provided strong support to the OUC's Hubei Branch in making use of information technology for online instruction.
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.