Profile:
Shaliyaxi Baoletai belongs to the Kazakh ethnic minority. She was born in July 1981, and has a level-three physical disability. She started working in October 2011, and entered the Social Work junior-college programme at the Xinjiang Altay Tutorial Centre for Physically Impaired Students of the Open University of China in 2020. She is currently an officer specialising in labour security on Tuanjie South Road in the Tuanjie Street Neighbourhood, Altay City,Xinjiang.
About Lao Qiaoyi:
She is a Business Management junior-college student at the Open University of China (OUC), class of 2018, and also leader of the Product R & D Technology Department of Beautiful Nonwoven Ltd., a producer of protective materials for healthcare workers, located in Foshan City. She also works as assistant director of typesetting and craftsmanship, the technical backbone of the company.
Fang Qing, an alumnus of Zhejiang Open University (Zhejiang OU), was named a "National Advanced Worker" at the 2020 National Model and Advanced Worker Commendation Conference held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 24 November, 2020.
Shanxi provincial government recently gave official approval for Shanxi Radio and TV University (RTVU) to be renamed Shanxi Open University. At the same time, nine municipal-level RTVUs were also renamed as open universities, including Taiyuan, Linfen, Yuncheng, Datong, Shuozhou, Yangquan, Lvliang, Changzhi, and Jincheng RTVUs.
On 4 December 2020, an academic seminar on a qualification framework and credit accreditation in western areas of China was held at the Chongqing Branch of the Open University of China (OUC).
On 5 December 2020, the Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting in Beijing on the construction of courses in ideology and political theory, and the founding of a steering committee for the teaching of ideology and political theory.
A signing ceremony for a strategic cooperation framework agreement between the Open University of China (OUC) and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music was held recently at the campus of the latter.
On 2 December 2020, the Open University of China (OUC) held an online video seminar with community-education experts, aiming to implement the guidance of the 5th Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on education, and push forward the development of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the construction of a new national education platform as proposed in the OUC Comprehensive Reform Plan.