In order to study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the National Education Conference, implement the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and the relevant requirements on the courses of ideology and politics, facilitate the construction of agriculture and medicine disciplines and the reform of their majors, and improve the quality of talent cultivation, the School of Agroforestry and Medicine of the Open University of China (OUC) held the Conference on the Teaching Work of Agriculture Majors and the Teaching Research Central Group and Conference on the Teaching Work of Medicine Majors and the Teaching Research Central Group in Haikou City on 27-28 and 29-30 November 2018, respectively. During this period, the Second Academic Meeting of the Agriculture and Medicine Sub-Committee was also convened.
From 5-9 November 2018, a press corps organised by the Open University of China (OUC) visited Sichuan for an in-depth investigation of the implementation and progress of the Long March Belt Educational Project Targeted at Alleviating Poverty project. The press corps included Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, Farmers’ Daily, China Education Daily, China Education Television, China Net (china.com.cn, china.org.cn), and other media.
To regulate the development of after-school training, the general office of the State Council issued Opinions on Regulating the Development of After-School Training in August 2018, pointing out that we should focus on the supervision and control of teacher training. Access to online education, an important part of after-school training, is open, but it has much higher requirements in terms of teaching resources, as well as research and teaching levels. Developing effective online teachers requires careful consideration.
In order to strengthen the construction of teachers in the organisational system of the Open University of China (OUC), promote the professional development of teachers, improve the level of teaching in distance and open education, and enhance the comprehensive quality of teachers, from 19-22 November 2018,
In November, tea lovers gathered together in the tea evaluation lab of Fujian Radio & TV University (Fujian RTVU) to celebrate the Fuzhou round of the “Zhuzi Cup” Cross-Strait Folk Tea Competition, an important part of the 12th Cross-Strait Tea Industry Expo happening from 14-18 November 2018.
On the 15th and 16th of November, a camera crew from China Central TV Station (CCTV) shot a programme about international students from Oman at Ningxia Radio & TV University (Ningxia RTVU). The show is part of celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Oman,
On the 16th and 17th of November, 2018, an academic seminar titled "Regional Credit Bank and Continuing Education", co-hosted by Shandong Radio and Television University (Shandong RTVU) and Qingdao RTVU, and sponsored by Beijing Century Chaoxing Group, was held in Qingdao.
From 1 to 6 November, a 2018 state-level senior seminar, Experimental Construction of Visual Artificial Intelligence Based on Big Data and In-Depth Learning, was held in the Continuing Education Centre of National Technical Professionals (Anhui Radio & TV University) in Hefei. It attracted nearly 70 artificial-intelligence researchers from across the country.