Editor's Note: General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasised at the National Conference on Education that the national education digitalisation initiative should be fully implemented, with efforts to expand the coverage of high-quality education resources and improve public services for lifelong learning.

On 11 October 2024, the special programme "Glorious Sunset: Tribute to Seniors", co-produced by the Seniors University of China (SUC) and China Media Group (CMG), was broadcast on CCTV-1, CCTV-3, CCTV-15, and CMG Mobile.

On 9 October, 2024, Professor Kylie Readman, deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), led a three-member delegation to visit the Open University of China (OUC).

On 10 October, 2024, a delegation led by Chen Yingying, executive vice president of the Party School, director of the Industry-Education Integration Development Centre, and secretary-general of the Baosteel Education Foundation of China Baowu Steel Group Corporation Limited, visited the Open University of China (OUC).

To enhance public scientific literacy and contribute to building a leading country in science and technology, the Open University of China (OUC) organised a series of diverse and content-rich activities from 15 to 25 September, as part of the "2024 National Science Popularisation Day" initiative.

On 29 September 2024, the "An Ode to New China, Forging Ahead in the New Era" cultural and artistic performance, held by the directly-affiliated institutions of the Ministry of Education (MOE) to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of New China, took place in Beijing.  

On 24 September, the Open University of China (OUC) held a video conference on the deployment of quality monitoring work in 2024. It reported on the quality monitoring situation of degree education in the school-operational system in 2023 and arranged the teaching inspection work in 2024.

From 21 to 23 September 2024, the inaugural China Nursing Home Directors Conference was held in Changsha, Hunan Province. The event was co-hosted by the China Association of Social, Welfare and Senior Service (CASWSS) and Fudan Institute on Aging, and organised by Changsha Social Work College.