To celebrate the 3rd annual Chinese Farmer Harvest Festival on 22 September 2020, the Open University of China (OUC) invited Shen Qun, a scientist with the China Agricultural Research System of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and a professor at China Agricultural University, to give a live-streaming lecture called “Open Discussion of Grain and Food Safety,
The Open University of China (OUC) held a work conference in Beijing from 21-22 September 2020. The theme of the conference was thoroughly studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on education and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and National Education Conference under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought with Chinese characteristics for a New Era.
The week from 14-20 September 2020 saw a national-level publicity campaign promoting network security. As an active response to the event, the Open University of China (OUC) held its own network security week on the theme of "Protecting Network Security for the People and by Relying on the People.
The Open University of China (OUC) held a mid-term exchange meeting for the third round of pilot programmes of multimodal teaching reform in public English in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, from 17 to 18 September 2020.
Recently, the Open University of China (OUC) held an online seminar on network security. Zeng Dehua, deputy director of the Education Management Information Centre of the Ministry of Education and director of the Education Information Classified Security Protection Evaluation Centre, was invited to give a report entitled “The Situation and Requirements of Network Information Security in Education.” About 500 faculty and staff from the OUC headquarters and its school running system attended the seminar.
On 15 September 2020, the headquarters of the Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting to report on the work of the inspection tour for the 2nd final examinations of the 2020 spring semester. About 110 university leaders, middle-level cadres, inspectors, and staff involved in examinations, attended the meeting.
At the Fujian University for Older Adults (UOA), 50,000 students signed up in 2017, 70,000 in 2018, and 160,000 in 2019, with the mobile-registration terminal getting 560,000 hits within the first 2 hours.
The opening ceremony of the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine (School of TCM) at the Qingdao branch of the Open University of China (OUC) was held on 19 August, 2020. The school is a new type of open-education school for training health-management personnel to meet health-industry needs and those of an aging society. It is accessible to anyone and aims to combine theory with practice, relying on the university's extensive resources and the strength of its health-management teaching team.