On 11th and 12th October, 2018, a seminar on graduation comprehensive practice and degree application procedures for undergraduates was held by the Faculty of Agroforestry and Medicine of the Open University of China (OUC) in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, with the majors covered including Horticulture, Nursing, and Public Service Management (Health Management direction).
The 2018 opening ceremony for the Education Improvement Programme and a donation agreement (signing) ceremony were held on 13 October 2018 at Sichuan Radio and TV University (Sichuan RTVU), a partner aid unit for poverty alleviation in Litang County in Sichuan’s Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Sichuan RTVU is committed to alleviating poverty in Litang through “education, industry, and care.”
“‘So you have put on reading glasses and now speak with lower voice after just half a year of university study’, my wife always laughs at me and says. ‘If you had worked this hard earlier, you would have passed the college entrance examination’,” 50-year-old Wang Wenbin, chairman of Doushizhuang Village Committee, Linyi County, Jiaobei Township, said. “It’s as if I have become a different person after attending university.”
On 21 October, 2018, the journal Distance Education in China, together with the Capital Learning Society Research Institute affiliated with Beijing Normal University(BNU) and the editorial department of the journal Adult Education, published by the Book and Information Centre of Renmin University, jointly organised a forum called “Emerging Topics in Education”, the first of its kind, with the theme of "Building a Learning City in the Internet Era", in Beijing.
On 18 October, 2018, the Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting concerning a pilot survey of graduate and employer satisfaction in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. More than 30 people, including Lin Yu, vice president of the OUC, Ye Hong, president of Zhejiang Radio and TV University (Zhejiang RTVU), and directors and other personnel from 11 branches, such as the Tianjin Branch and the OUC Experimental School, attended the meeting.
The School of Modern Property Services and Real-Estate Management of the Open University of China (OUC) was inaugurated on 15 October, 2018, at the Second International Property Management Industry Expo. Lin Yu, OUC vice president, and Shen Jianzhong, chairman of the China Property Management Institute, were among those attending.
The Bayi School of the Open University of China (OUC) and the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House (ECPH) signed a strategic-cooperation agreement in Beijing on the 16th of October, 2018. The two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in defense education, the development and publishing of teaching materials, courseware production, and so on.
The 2nd Symposium on Open and Innovative Education was held in Beijing from 17-19 October 2018, and attracted both domestic and international experts. The Open University of China (OUC) and Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) jointing organised it. Yang Zhijian, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the OUC, and Prof. Reggie Kwan, vice president of the OUHK, delivered addresses at the opening ceremony.