On 16th September , 2017, Tibet University hosted a signing ceremony on an Agreement to Provide Assistance for Tibet University in the Co-construction of an OUC (the Open University of China) Branch in Tibet during the 13th Five-Year Plan.

Beginning in 2000, aiming to help non-commissioned officers realise their dream of attending college while still in the military, and construct a learning-oriented military, the Open University of China (OUC) successively established Bayi School, Zongcan School, and School for the Air Force.

Shoemakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, and tofu makers are all craftsmen. “Craftsman” originally means a person with outstanding skills. “Craftsmanship” is a way of making a living, and a person with a certain craft is called a craftsman. By constantly tempering and polishing with their hands, they manage to pursue the utmost aspiration for skill and quality.

On 29th September 2017, the Training and Administration Department of the Central Military Commission (CMC) signed a strategic and cooperative framework agreement with the Open University of China (OUC).

The 27th World Conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) was held in Toronto, Canada from 16th to 19th October, 2017.

The Open University of China’s (OUC) Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting Appreciation and Creation & Moodle Platform Construction project, funded by the China National Arts Fund, recently launched in Beijing.

"The key to judging whether a place is well-off or not lies in its residents.” In Gansu province, one of the main battle fields of poverty alleviation in China, the cost of poverty reduction for the remaining residents below the poverty line is getting higher and poverty relieving work is getting more difficult.

On the occasion of the 33rd Teacher’s Day, Xie Nan received a text message from one of her rural students: “I feel so lucky to have you as my teacher, you never look down upon us rural students. I’m not good with words but I want to say ‘Happy Teacher’s Day’ to you.”