The English-major Reform Central Group of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Open University of China (OUC) held a work meeting in Kunming on 3 and 4 December 2020, aiming to implement the OUC Comprehensive Reform Plan and promote English-major teaching reforms.

On 4 and 5 December 2020, the Open University of China (OUC) convened a work conference on the construction of standards for its English-grading system in Kunming, Yunnan Province.

On 28 November 2020, the Open University of China (OUC) and Hangzhou Radio & TV University (Hangzhou RTVU) signed an agreement on course co-construction. Lin Yu, OUC vice president of the OUC; Ye Zhihong, director of the Academic Affairs Department; Xie Liewei, Hangzhou RTVU Party secretary; He Shugui, deputy Party secretary; staff in charge of co-construction, and teacher representatives of the two universities, participated in the ceremony.

On 30 November 2020, the Open University of China (OUC) and the Higher Education Teaching Evaluation Centre of the Ministry of Education (MOE) jointly launched a training class for experts engaged in the pilot programme for the evaluation of teaching quality in its branches.

The Research Centre of the Open University of China (OUC) held its annual work conference for 2020 in Beijing in order to discuss and evaluate its work. OUC vice president Ju Chuanjin, the director and representatives of the Centre, and all members of the Lifelong Education Institute attended, with the meeting presided over by Li Wei, deputy director of the Institute.

In order to encourage and enhance the original academic research of its faculty, the OUC Press Group put out a call for essays on the topic of "Suggestions for the 14th Five-Year Plan".

The OUC's Guangzhou Branch recently held a training class for full-time teachers of older adults, the 1st of its kind in Guangzhou.

In order to thoroughly implement the Comprehensive Reform Plan of the Open University of China (OUC), create a platform for foreign cooperation, and promote the development of international cooperation and exchange, the OUC held the 2020 Seminar on the Internationalisation Strategic Plan, the first of its kind conducted by the OUC leading group for the internationalisation strategic plan, in Hangzhou from 26-27 November 2020. Yang Xiaotang, vice president of the OUC, presided over the seminar.