On 27 December 2020, the opening ceremony of Heilongjiang Open University (Heilongjiang OU) was held in Harbin, at which Heilongjiang Radio and TV University (Heilonjiang RTVU) was officially renamed as Heilongjiang OU.

After the renaming, Heilongjiang OU remains under the supervision of Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Government and is still directly subordinate to the Provincial Education Department. Heilongjiang OU will remain a part of the school running system of the Open University of China (OUC), with its business under the guidance of the OUC. Its main mission is to serve lifelong learning for all and to promote the construction of an open education system in the province. In the future, the university will continue to focus on open education, vocational education, and community education and create in-depth integration by using the credit bank to connect various kinds of degree and non-degree education in order to build a “Longjiang educational sample” for lifelong learning for all.

Heilongjiang RTVU was founded in 1979. Over the past 41 years, it has cultivated over 562,000 degree education graduates and trained more than 7.94 million people using all kinds of non-degree education. It offers learning guidance to more than 1 million community residents annually, making due contributions to economic revitalisation and social development in Heilongjiang Province.

During the ceremony, vice governor Sun Dongsheng and responsible personnel from the OUC jointly unveiled Heilongjiang OU.

By OUC News Network, reprinted from Heilongjiang Newspaper