On 10 September 2021, a golden autumn day, the Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting to celebrate Teachers' Day 2021. Members of the university leadership attended along with faculty and staff, on-site or via webcast. Jing Degang, Party Committee secretary and OUC president, delivered a speech.
Recently, the Party Committee of the Ministry of Education, the Information Office of the Ministry of Education (MOE), and the China Education Press Agency jointly set up a column titled “Learning From and Implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Speech at the Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China” and successively published articles reflecting on studying the speech from some departments of and organisations direct affiliated to the MOE.
In order to enhance its culture and the cohesion and sense of belonging of teachers, the Faculty of Political Science and Law of the Open University of China (OUC) held a team-building “open space” event on 7 September 2021, brainstorming problems in the development of the faculty and solutions to these, and aiming to promote reform.
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In April 2021, the OUC “One College Student Per Village” Programme was awarded the 2020 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education, the UN’s highest award for IT application in education.
Recently, the outstanding deeds of Zhu Shijie, a graduate of Ningbo Open University (Ningbo OU) and a workshop supervisor for the bridge-crane class of Ningbo Beilun No. 3 Container Terminal (Zhejiang Seaport Group), were selected for mention in a textbook of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
At 10 a.m. on 6 September, 2021, deputy Party secretary of the Open University of China (OUC) Liu Chen delivered a speech entitled “Political Manifesto of the Grand CPC Party to Realise the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation” at the opening of the first class of the new semester via live video broadcast to all the teachers and students of the OUC system.
The Open University of China (OUC) recently convened the First Plenary Session of its Third Academic Committee.
The Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting to promote its key work for 2021 on 3 September. In addition to spreading the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s recent guiding principles on promoting key work, the meeting deployed the university’s work for the autumn semester. Jing Degang, secretary of the OUC Party Committee and president, presided over and addressed the meeting.