Profile: Yi Fengjiao, born in 1983 in a farmer's household located in Hubei province, graduated from a secondary technical school in 2000 and then went to work in Guangdong.

Zhu Xueqin, a 2007 Business Administration graduate from Shanghai Television University (Shanghai RTVU), is now Chairman of the Labor Union and Secretary of the Youth League Branch at Shanghai Huari Garment Co.Ltd. She has been awarded many honorary titles, including National Textile Industry Model Worker, National Advanced Knowledge-Based Worker, Shanghai Model Worker, and so on.

Editor's Note: On February 16, 2016, the Ministry of Education (MOE) issued a notice entitled, “Recognition of Party Member's Vanguard Post, Outstanding Innovative Work and Excellent Research Report in 2015” (No. 5 from the Party Committee on Educational Institutions, 2016). The Open University of China’s (OUC) “Distance Vocational Education Orientations in Rural Areas and New Innovative Pattern of Cultivating Professional Farmers" was awarded "Outstanding Innovative Work."

Editor’s note: On February 16, 2016, the Ministry of Education (MOE) issued a notice entitled, “ Recognition of Party Member's Vanguard Post: Outstanding Innovative Work and Excellent Research Report in 2015" (the fifth of the Educational Institution Party Committee, 2016). The Open University of China (OUC) Digital Library’s “Cooperative Service Work Method” was awarded “Excellent Innovative Work.”

On 28 February 2016, Bayi School’s outstanding graduate and first sergeant in one of the rocket force brigades, Wang Zhongxin, set off from his barrack to Beijing to attend the NPC & CPPCC sessions.

On January 21, 2016, the Open University of China (OUC) held the 2016 working conference. Both leaders and teaching staff attended the conference. During the conference, a summary was presented of the OUC’s construction progress over the past 5 years, providing clarification about the current situation.

On January 15, 2016, a press conference covering the selection results for 2015’s “Top 10 News Events in Modern Chinese Distance Education” was held in Beijing. The news selection campaign was sponsored by Distance Education in China.

In the afternoon of January 7, 2016, a three-person group led by Liu Ying, Director of the Urban and Rural Social Education Division under the Ministry of Education (MOE) Department of Vocational and Adult Education, came to The Open University of China (OUC) to conduct a study on non-degree education work.