From May 5-8, 2014, the East-West Cooperation Meeting of the China Zhigong Party was held at Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Yan Xiaopei, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and Vice Chairman of the China Zhigong Party’s Central Committee, attended and addressed the meeting.
On the morning of May 6, Youth League Committee of Departments directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE) convened to pass on, learn, and implement the spirit of the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping on May Fourth. Excellent youth league committee leaders from departments directly under the MOE, May Fourth Red Flag Youth League, Advanced Groups and Individuals Involved in the Investigation Activities of Returning to the Countryside for Spring Festival, and “Rooted in the Grass-roots Level” photography competition award winners were commended and a series of activities entitled “Reading, Speaking and Writing”, by the youth league members from departments directly under the MOE, were launched.
On April 28th and 29th of 2014, President of the Open University of China (OUC), Yang Zhijian, attended the ICDE's second Executive Committee Meeting in Oslo, Norway. At the same time, he also attended the “International workshop on policy for OER and less used languages”, where he also gave a discourse.
On April 22, a video conference of the Open University of China (OUC) national reading initiative summary and the kickoff of Tao Fen Foundation Donation Project (pilot unit), co-sponsored by the Library Society of China and the OUC, was held at the OUC headquarters in Beijing.
On May 8 the 7th three-day National Chinese Learning Conference (NCLC) was held in Los Angeles, U.S. More than 1,200 delegates, including education officials, school principals, Chinese education specialists, and teachers from across the U.S. and other countries, as well as participants from relevant education and teaching institutions, attended the conference. Distance Chinese teaching became one of the highlights of the conference.
The HSK test centre at the Open University of China (OUC) successfully held its first New HSK test at the Weigongcun campus on May 10, 2014, signifying the formal launch of its test centre.
108 people successfully registered for the test, which was held across eight examination rooms, covering four HSK levels and three HSKK levels. On the day of the test, special staff has been assigned to meet the examinees and guide them to the examination rooms.
In recent years, in order to recruit various types of excellent talents from diverse corners of society to settle down in Guangdong and participate in socio-economic development efforts, the Guangdong provincial government has gradually implemented a “Credit Accumulation for Household Registration” policy in cities under its jurisdiction. Based upon the policy and relying on Guangzhou’s digital learning system, Guangzhou RTVU integrated its impressive resources and launched the vocational skills accreditation training programme.
The computer training class for the elderly, organized by the Experimental School of Zhejiang RTVU for the Elderly and the Training School (Zhejiang Instruction Centre for Community Education), reopened again recently. This training class is adopting a small-class format, introducing courses at the “RTVU’s Tea Centre,” which were developed independently by the Zhejiang RTVU Training School. The class has already had five sessions.