On June 14th, 2015, a small symposium on the internationalization of academic journals was held at the publishing house of Distance Education in China.

As the primary mechanisms used in distance education are shifting from traditional radio and TV to the Internet; the Internet age is imposing new, higher requirements on the Open University of China (OUC). Therefore, we must be well prepared to deal with the situation.

Gansu Cadre Online School was inaugurated at Gansu Radio and TV University (RTVU) on June 10, 2015, which indicating that new progress has been achieved in the reform of cadre education and training in Gansu province. Hao Yuan, Vice Governor of Gansu province, Chen Weizhong,  Vice Minister of the Organization Department of Gansu Provincial Party Committee, attended the opening ceremony, in which Mr. Chen also announced the Announcement of the Foundation of Gansu Cadre Online School and when Zhu Weiguo, Secretary of the Party Committee from Gansu RTVU hosted the ceremony and gave a speech.

Ancient Chinese society was dominated by a patriarchal clan system, in which the blood relationship was regarded as the most important social connection. Therefore the sense of a clan is deeply rooted in the minds of ancient Chinese people, and was actually a tightly united group. However nowadays this concept has quite faded away. In this lecture we will get to know some ideas about how a Chinese clan is defined and the scope it covers. 

With the aim of further exploring the model and working mechanism of community education, and vigorously advancing the construction of experiment centres (bases) for community education, the 2015 National Community Education Seminar of the Ministry of Education (MOE) Research and Training Centre for Community Education (hereafter shortened to “the Centre”) convened in Changchun, Jilin Province from June 10–11.

From May 26-28, 2015, the second Liwa Book Fair was held at the Training Base for International Chinese Teachers at the East China Normal University in Shanghai.The OUC Chinese Language Centre (MyEChinese) was invited to exhibit its independently researched and developed materials, teaching resources and distance teaching services to teachers and students in the field of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. In this exhibition, the intelligent teaching cloud space for individual teachers, launched for the first time by MyEChinese Intelligent Teaching Platform, drew visitors interest.

I. Serving agriculture, rural development, and farmers is the top priority.

Hunan is a province with a large population mainly engaged in agriculture. Of its population numbering 67.372 million, 50.7% are farmers. As far as Hunan’s future is concerned, the focus is on rural development, the foundation is agriculture, and the key is farmers.

On May 28, 2015 the inauguration ceremony of the “Anhui RTVU Village Library”, donated and founded by the RTVU at Caobei village, Zhaoji township in Taihe county, was held in Anhui RTVU’s targeted poverty alleviation unit - the Maying Primary School.