During the outbreak of COVID-19, the Calligraphy Association of the Wuhan Branch of the Open University of China (OUC) organised a creative calligraphy activity with the theme of “Solidarity in Fighting the Epidemic,” expressing their blessings and affection for Wuhan and cheering on all of those who have joined the battle.
On 15 March 2020, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping wrote a letter to Party members born in the 1990s from Peking University's medical team who were sent to Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in China. He extended sincere greetings to them and all the other young people fighting on the frontline of epidemic prevention and control, encouraging Chinese youth everywhere to contribute to the fight against the coronavirus outbreak.
Editor's note: In the battle with the COVID-19 epidemic, more and more fighters are coming to its front lines, including students and former students of the Open University of China (OUC). Like other fighters, no matter how ordinary, they are contributing what they can. Let's take a close look at some of their stories.
The list of 2019 Open University of China (OUC) Outstanding Graduates has been selected and 538 students have been honoured with the title.
Since 10 April 2020, more than 117,000 students from Xinjiang Radio and TV University (Xinjiang RTVU) have logged into the integrated online learning platform on their computer or mobile phone and completed learning procedures such as registration, payment, course selection, online examinations, and uploading papers, realising the goal of convenient learning anytime, anywhere.
From 17 to 18 April 2020, remote graduation thesis defences for the first batch of students in the qualification promotion programme for students (officers and soldiers) posted to the Taiyuan Destroyer was successfully completed at Taiyuan Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC). This signifies that the programme has completed the whole process of OUC learner development and sent out its first batch of graduates.
With the arrival of World Reading Day on 23 April, the Open University of China (OUC) has launched the “2020 Initiative to Promote Reading for All" (full text attached at the end of the article), requiring all libraries within the OUC organisation system to take joint action to organise and participate in activities encouraging people to read and consciously take part in this initiative, so as to improve the literary environment on campus and help readers make achievements through reading.
The predecessor of the Open University of China (OUC) was China Central Radio and TV University (CCRTVU), which was founded with the advocacy of Comrade Deng Xiaoping in 1979.