On 15th December 2017, a delegation led by the honorary president of the Open University of Tanzania, former prime minister of Tanzania Mizengo Pinda, as well as the Chinese ambassador to Tanzania, Lyu Youqing, visited the Open University of China (OUC).

Personnel accompanying the delegation included Professor Xu Xiuli, deputy dean of the School of “Belt and Road” Agricultural Cooperation, and representatives from the School of Humanity and Development of China Agricultural University, China Education Television. OUC president Yang Zhijian and vice president Yang Xiaotang met the delegation.

The delegation visited the OUC’s achievement exhibition themed “The OUC, Five Years On,” the cloud classrooms, library, and Chinese Language Centre. Delegates spoke highly of the results achieved by the OUC in the fields of integrating information technology and teaching, and promoting educational equity.

Leaders of both universities, and ambassador Lyu Youqing, held in-depth discussions and reached a common understanding. The OUC will implement the Chinese “Belt and Road” strategy and carry out a cooperation agreement with the Open University of Tanzania signed in March 2017, which emphasises jointly exploring new technical methods to advance comprehensive and in-depth cooperation between the two sides. The cooperation covers completing a case study on the Open University of Tanzania as one of the global open universities initiated by the OUC; establishing an OUC study centre at the Open University of Tanzania to carry out network-based Chinese language teaching integrating online and offline methods; and, exploring the possibilities of establishing two cloud classrooms at the Open University of Tanzania.

OUC vice president Yang Xiaotang led a delegation to visit the Open University of Tanzania in March 2017, and signed a Memorandum of Cooperation that included cooperation in the areas of scientific research, language teaching, and establishing overseas study centres, etc.

                                                    By Chen Na, OUC International Cooperation and Exchange Department

                                                    Photographer: Yu Zhangli