Ningbo Radio and TV University’s (Ningbo RTVU) “Blooming New Silk Road” international cultural exchange platform has been successfully approved as one of the first batch of units that will jointly build a Belt and Road international educational cooperation platform based on social and culture exchange.

The National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political and Consultative Conference (CPPCC) , also known as “Two Sessions” were convened recently with the theme of “New Era, New Journey”. What are the major concerns of the newly elected NPC deputies and CPPC members who are OUC graduates?

The National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), together referred to as the two sessions, were recently convened in Beijing. Facing a new era, new journey, and new mission, which issues will the new deputies to the two sessions from the Open University of China (OUC) focus on?

It was announced recently that two projects, Stronger Manufacturing, Stronger China: From Manufacturing Power Strategy to China Manufacturing 2025 and Eye of Space: Space Technology Escorts the Belt and Road Initiative, submitted by the Open University of China Press (OUC) will be funded by the National Publication Foundation in 2018.

According to the US education website Education Dive, in 2018, university and college leaders should focus on the five following trends.

In order to enrich its “learning menu” and make it possible for people to study at home, Tianjin Radio and TV University (Tianjin RTVU) has been conducting in-depth surveys of people’s needs, constantly optimising the Tianjin Lifelong Learning Network, and accumulating digital study resources.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) recently printed and distributed the “2018 Key Work Points for Educational Informatisation and Online Security” (hereinafter referred to as the Key Work Points), which put forward nine core targets and 29 key tasks in nine aspects.“Promoting Cloud Classroom Construction at the Open University of China (OUC)” was been listed among the core goals.” In addition, the OUC is expected to undertake or participate in three major tasks.

At the First Session of the 13th People’s Congress of Hunan Province, Deputy Long Siqing emphasised the need to strive to cultivate rural talents to help with rural revitalisation. “The key to achieving prosperity for a village is to have a good Party branch and the key to lifting a household out of poverty is to have a knowledgable person in the family,” she explained.