On 24 September 2014, over ten days after Teachers’ Day, our interviewing team of three people rambled up the steep Daba Mountains in a bus. The goal of our trip was to interview RTVU students and “The Most Beautiful Rural Teacher in the Country” — the couple Liao Zhanfu and Zhang Xingqiong, and to prepare the shooting of a micro film. 

Recently, with Zhejiang’s Taizhou Radio and TV University (RTVU) affiliation with Jindatian Village, a college was opened at the doors of villagers, giving all villagers a chance to study in the same classroom. The first village-level rural college student class in Zhejiang Province was launched in the village, which became a new pattern for the “project of training rural college students” in the Zhejiang RTVU system.

Organized by Hong Kong, Macao, and the Taiwan Office under the Ministry of Education, co-organized by the Open University of China (OUC) and the Greater China Youth (www.GCyouth.net), Chinese History Website Experts Symposium was recently held in the OUC. Chinese History Website was founded and led by Liu Naiqiang, a member of the Drafting Committee for the Basic Law of HKSAR and organizer of Greater China Youth Online.

Yan Bing, Vice President of the Open University of China (OUC), and Guo Xiaoxia, the OUC School of Agroforestry and Medicine, attended the high-level Sino-French forum on social security held in Paris, France. After the forum, they paid a visit to the service agencies for senior citizens in France.

On Oct. 9, 2014, in order to further enhance the quality of online course building, identify the significance of the trial operation of the online course, clarify procedures for the work, and to promote the nationwide trial operation of the online course in the autumn of 2014, the Open University of China (OUC) held a work summary and seminar on the building and trial operation of the online course during the spring of 2014.

On 20 September 2014, Gansu Radio and TV University (Gansu RTVU) went to Jingchuan County to carry out the “Unity Activity” event, to promote open education in the countryside and the communities. Many people from the surrounding countryside attended the event.

After the special online training seminar for national cadres of the Central Organization Department’s classroom was moved to the OUC, 50 trainees from the seminar for cadre education in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region also came to the Open University of China (OUC) on 26 September 2014.

 

September 24-26, 2014 saw the convening of the Ninth Seminar of Bohai Sea Rim Community Education Cooperation Organization in the City of Dalian, Liaoning Province.

Cai Yan, Deputy Director of the Adult Training Division of the MOE Department of Vocational and Adult Education, attended the seminar. She indicated that China is now at a crucial stage in comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, which means that continuing education is faced with a rare development opportunity.