On 1 November 2024, the Open University of China (OUC) held a teaching and research activity for the Chinese-related majors in Quanzhou, actively responding to the OUC's call to develop a "dual-competence" teaching faculty.

To actively advance the national-level ideological and political education demonstration project and the development of teaching teams, fully leverage collective wisdom to enhance teaching quality, achieve tangible results, strengthen demonstration, and innovate the development of ideological and political courses, the Open University of China (OUC) recently held an intensive seminar on the ideological and political education demonstration project for Software Engineering course in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province.

Recently, the Open University of China (OUC) held a special seminar on the joint training of postgraduate students majoring in Marxist theory and the meeting between teachers and students of the 2024 cohort.

To further advance the paradigm innovation of ideological and political education in open education courses and to implement the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, the Open University of China (OUC) held an intensive seminar on the construction of the national-level ideological and political demonstration project for the course of Theories of Social Security in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province on 29 October 2024. Bi Ming, president of Quzhou Open University (OU), delivered a speech at the event.

To thoroughly implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on vocational education, and to fully execute the CPC Central Committee and the State Council's significant deployments on vocational education, the Open University China (OUC), as the leading entity of the national-level vocational education "dual-qualified" teacher training base for nursing, has led the development of the "Dual-Qualified Teacher Training Curriculum System for Nursing Vocational Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Training Curriculum System").

From 30 to 31 October 2024, the Open University of China (OUC) held a comprehensive seminar on teaching process in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province.

It is stated in the No. 1 central document for 2024 to learn and apply the experience from the Green Rural Revival Programme in Zhejiang Province to vigorously and effectively promote the all-round rural revitalisation, and it is underscored at the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to apply the experience gained from the Green Rural Revival Programme in Zhejiang Province to refine the long-term mechanisms for promoting all-around rural revitalisation.

To build a high-quality "dual-competence" teaching faculty for humanities majors in the Open University, and to meet the development requirements of "innovative development", "high-quality" and "integrated collaboration" of the university, on 22 October 2024, the School of Humanities of the Open University of China (OUC) organised a seminar on enhancement teachers' professional competence within its educational system.

To thoroughly study and implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the National Conference on Education, and actively fulfill relevant requirements in the "Key Tasks of the Open University of China for 2024", promoting the construction of high-quality teaching workforce and course teams for Legal Affairs and Law majors, recently, the School of Political Science and Law of the Open University of China (OUC) held intensive training activities for six courses, namely "Civil Law", "Commercial Law", "Contract Law", "Economic Law", "International Economic Law" and "Legal Consultation and Mediation" in Chizhou, Anhui Province.

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.