On the afternoon of June 27th, Liu Yandong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the 2013 National Vocational Students Skill Competition Achievements Exhibition and visited the exhibition hall of the Open University of China (OUC). She was accompanied on her visit by Mayor Huang Xingguo of Tianjin Municipality, Education Minister Yuan Guiren, Vice Minister Lu Xin, Director-General Ge Daokai of the Department of Vocational and Adult Education with the Ministry of Education, and others. Vice Secretary Zhang Shaogang of the CPC OUC Committee outlined the progress that OUC has made over the last year in the construction and application of information technology and digital learning resources, as well as the OUC’s development of the “five-minute courses”.
The 2013 National Vocational Students Skill Competition Achievements Exhibition was held at the Tianjin International Exhibition Center on June 24-28. The OUC made a series display on the integrated application of information technology, digital learning resources, distance vocational education, and the five-minute courses. A touch-screen digital learning resource demonstration was also on display.
By Yu Zhangli, the OUC