In the oppressive summer heat of the morning of July 18th of 2014, Ye Liansheng, hailed as the “most beautiful old man” because of picking up more than 200,000 cigarette butts, carrying a plastic bag in his left hand and holding a self-made “magic tool” in his right hand, appeared again at the side of the canal. But the difference this time was that he was followed by a group of volunteers from the summer training class for student cadres of Zhejiang RTVU. In half a day, led by Mr. Ye, the students picked up thousands of cigarette butts.
On July 16th of 2014, Tianjin RTVU celebrated its 56th birthday. On the same day, the 5th Learning Festival was convened, and the Tianjin Lifelong Learning Network mutually organized by Tianjin RTVU and people.com.cn went online. Thus, Tianjin RTVU’s 5th Learning Festival and the 56th Anniversary were both held on the same day.
The four headquarters of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (the Headquarters of the General Staff, the General Political Department, the General Logistics Department, and the General Armament Department) recently issued a notification announcing the winners of the 2013 Excellent Sergeants First Prize among all PLA officers and soldiers.
From 10th to 11th June, 2014, with the purpose of promoting exchange and cooperation in lifelong education across the strait, the “2014 Lifelong Education Forum between Chengdu and Taiwan”, sponsored by the Taiwanese Affairs Office of Chengdu and the Bureau of Education of Chengdu and undertaken by Chengdu RTVU, was held in Chengdu.
On 1 July 2014, the construction of an Information Platform for the OUC Credit Bank was formally launched and is expected to be put into trial operation at the beginning of 2015.
The Information Platform for the OUC Credit Bank (hereinafter referred to as the “Information Platform”) is an important component of the digitization construction of the OUC, as well as one of the important infrastructure construction projects which make possible the accreditation, accumulation and transfer of learning outcomes.
On July 9, 2014, the Wukesong Campus of the Open University of China (OUC) was connected with Changdu Audio-Visual Centre via video through the OUC cloud classroom system. From that time forward, the distance training series has been made available to primary and middle school teachers in support of Tibetans in Tibet’s Changdu Prefecture via the Application of New Technologies in Education.
On June 24-27, 2014, the 2014 IACEE 14th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education was held at Stanford University in the United States. A 4-person delegation from the Open University of China (OUC), including Cui Lin from the School of Engineering, Wu Shuping from the Information Technology Department, and Wang Like and Yuan Ling from the Credit Bank Management Office attended the conference. They spoke at the conference and presented a poster. This is the OUC’s debut at the World Conference on Continuing Education since its establishment.
The signing and inauguration ceremony for the cooperative projects of Taizhou RTVU Programme Practice Base and College and University Correspondent Centre for the 21st Century of China Daily between 21st Century, an English newspaper sponsored by China’s largest English newspaper system, China Daily, and Taizhou RTVU was held on May 21, 2014.