On November 4, students of Chongqing's first community school - Street Community School at Yuzhou Road - showed off their paper-cutting works at the national opening ceremony for the 2014 Lifelong Learning Activity Week in the Yuzhong District of Chongqing. At the ceremony, the vivid images of celebrities, magpies, galloping horses, and other works showed the learning outcomes that the students gained in the community schools.

The paper-cutting work show of the street community school at Yuzhou Road is just a microcosm of Chongqing Radio and TV University's (Chongqing RTVU) achievements in promoting lifelong learning and learning-type urban construction. At the street community school at Yuzhou Road, Shiqiaopu Campus of Chongqing RTVU, in addition to paper-cutting, community residents can also learn dancing, vocal music, computers, photography, Chinese painting, and tai chi. Young ones in the community can also attend a "white collar class" after school to learn etiquette and cultural differences between China and foreign countries. Apart from these, the school also opened a finance class to teach financial knowledge to community residents. On the weekends, the school also holds "Yuzhou Forum" and "Yuzhou Theater" for community residents.

Paper Cutting Class of Street Community School at Yuzhou Road 

Besides the street community school at Yuzhou Road, Chongqing RTVU, serving as Chongqing community education service guidance centre, has established 13 community colleges and over one hundred community schools within the school system, delivering high quality educational resources to the community and the citizens. In addition, the school also takes advantage of the rich resources available via distance education to build a "Chongqing lifelong learning network" for all types of learners in Chongqing, providing an online platform that integrates digital learning, information exchange, public services, and other functions for vocational education, public education, and other applicable fields. The platform provides more than 2,000 hours of video resources in morality cultivation and science literacy to the citizens without charge, with the number of registered users reaching over 50,000 and the volume of visits over one million, fully exercising the unique role of online learning in lifelong learning for all.

By Chongqing RTVU