Drawing inspiration from the ancient Silk Road and prioritizing connectivity, the Belt and Road Initiative seeks to enhance policy coordination, infrastructure linkage, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and deepen people-to-people relationships with partner countries.

From the 12th to the 13th of October 2023, the Open University of China (OUC) conducted a deployment initiative on secondary vocational education research in Linyi City, Shandong Province.

On 14 October, the Third High-level Forum on Contemporary Chinese Marxism Research 2023, sponsored by the Open University of China (OUC) and organised by the OUC School of Marxism and the OUC Research Institute of Contemporary Chinese Marxism, convened in Beijing.

On 12 October 2023, the International Department of the Open University of China (OUC) hosted a presentation by visiting scholars from the 2022 Sino-British Fellowship Project.

Recently, a meeting was held to discuss the construction of the Open Learning Centre (Future Academy) Programme and the initiatives of the Open Learning Centre Construction Alliance in Yantai.

The Sino-British Fellowship Project (UK Open and Distance Education Programme for Personnel from Chinese Open Universities) has been initiated through a collaborative effort between the China Scholarship Council (CSC), the Sino-British Fellowship Trust (SBFT), and the Open University of China (OUC).

Recently, a symposium was hosted to welcome the 2023 freshman of the graduate programme in Marxist Theory, a joint initiative between the Open University of China (OUC) and Beijing Jiaotong University (BJU) at BJU.

To further explore and implement the guiding principles from the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and to build on the successes of the thematic education campaign, the Faculty of Education at the Open University of China (OUC) recently organised a seminar in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province.