"The family is the child’s first classroom." General Secretary Xi Jinping, leader of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government, pays great attention to the role of family in education throughout his governance, and in order to implement his thinking, help foster virtue through education, broaden the horizon of the Preschool Education major, and ensure the quality of its resources, from 20 October to 8 November 2021, the Faculty of Education of the Open University of China (OUC), together with its Learning Resources Department, offered a series of public lectures on family education titled “Lectures by Experts and Famous Teachers on Preschool Education”.
On 11 November 2021, the Faculty of Political Science and Law of the Open University of China (OUC) invited researcher Xie Yahong, deputy secretary-general of Chinese Administration Management Society and editor-in-chief of the journal Chinese Public Administration, to give a lecture titled “Paper Writing from the Editor’s Perspective” to OUC teachers and students.
The Management Sub-Committee of the Academic Committee of the Open University of China (OUC) will organise a series of integrated online/offline activities encouraging academic discussion and exchange during November and December to strengthen the construction of the Management Sub-Committee, further the professional development and empirical research of the OUC management discipline, serve teaching reform and course construction, and improve the research level of the discipline in line with The OUC Academic Committee Regulations.
The Faculty of Education of the Open University of China (OUC) held a seminar for Sports majors, the first of its kind held at the university, on 10 November 2021.
On 11 November 2011, the School of Public Administration of the Faculty of Political and Law of the Open University of China (OUC) held a workshop concerning issues of public administration after Covid-19.
On 18 October 2021, another Covid-19 outbreak resulted in a lockdown in Ningxia. Overnight, early 2020 seemed to have returned, but in contrast to then, many people are leaving their homes, staying at work, and helping fight the spread of infection. Ningxia Open University (Ningxia OU) students have been unanimous in joining them.
On 4 November 2011, an “Emotion and Stress Management, Self-care, and Meaningful Living” mental-health workshop was held at the Open University of China (OUC). The workshop invited Wang Dongsheng, associate research fellow in the Psychological Counseling and Service Centre of the Student Affairs Department of the Party Committee of Beijing Normal University, to explain how to manage emotions and relieve stress. 29 teachers from various departments and the Experimental School attended.
On the recent list of the 8th National Moral Models, Zhu Shijie, an outstanding alumnus of the Open University of China (OUC), and workshop supervisor at the Ningbo Beilun Third Container Terminal (part of the Zhejiang Seaport Group), was named a “Model of Professional Dedication”.