Shijiazhuang, 24 July 2025 - The first qualifying tournament of 2025 "Golden Age Cup" National Senior Arts Performance, focusing on traditional opera, was held in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. The event, co-organised by the Seniors University of China (SUC) and China Education Television (CETV), was hosted by the Hebei Branch of SUC. FAN Xianrui, Vice President of the Open University of China (OUC) and SUC; LYU Xuewu, Deputy Director General of CETV; TIAN Xuebin, President of the SUC’s Hebei Branch; and relevant officials from the Hebei Provincial Department of Education attended the event.
Beijing, 25 July 2025 - The 2025 Belt and Road Forum for Language and Culture Collaboration and the Global English Education China Assembly was staged in Beijing. FAN Xianrui, Vice President of the Open University of China (OUC) attended the forum and delivered a speech titled "AI Empowering Educational Innovation and Building a Digital Education Community of Shared Future." In her speech, she shared the university's practical achievements in the field of digital intelligence-empowered lifelong education and offered suggestions for the construction of the Belt and Road digital education community with a shared future.
Beijing, 18 July 2025 - The Inaugural Ceremony of the National Alliance for Digital-Intelligent Domestic Services Industry-Education Integration and Ecosystem Development was held at the Wukesong campus of the Open University of China (OUC).
The Open University of China (OUC) convened the sixth session of its Fourth Academic Degree Evaluation Committee to review the degree awarding process for the spring semester of 2025. A total of 22 committee members attended the meeting, with heads of relevant academic departments of OUC present as observers. The session was presided over by GU Xiaohua, Secretary-General of the OUC Degree Evaluation Committee.
Beijing, 15 July 2025 - A delegation led by WANG Yufei, Director of the Centre for Social Security Capacity Building of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), visited the Open University of China (OUC). OUC President WANG Qiming and Vice President ZHOU Tianming welcomed the delegation and attended the meeting. The two parties engaged in in-depth discussions on topics such as vocational capacity building, construction of a lifelong education system, and domestic service training. The meeting was chaired by ZHOU Tianming.
The Signing Ceremony was attended by ZHENG Qinghua who is adjunct professor at XJTU, founder and academic leader of the Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data Knowledge Engineering, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the XJTU delegation. From OUC side, President WANG Qiming, Vice Presidents LI Song, FAN Xianrui, LIU Xuanxuan and ZHOU Tianming, attended the Ceremony which was presided by Vice President LI Song.
Beijing, 16 July 2025 - To implement the 2024 -2035 Master Plan on Building China into a Leading Country in Education and its Three-Year Action Plan, and to advance the construction of a digitally-empowered ubiquitous and accessible lifelong learning system, the Open University of China (OUC) invited Professor ZHENG Qinghua, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Secretary of the CPC Tongji University Committee to give a lecture “AI-Empowered Innovation and Development in Education”. The session was chaired by OUC Vice President FAN Xianrui.
The 2025 Open University of China (OUC) Staff Table Tennis Competition recently wrapped up, bringing together 37 teams and 253 faculty and staff members. President WANG Qiming, Vice Presidents LI Song, FAN Xianrui, LIU Xuanxuan and ZHOU Tianming attended the Opening Ceremony. Participants from various departments battled it out in intense matches, drawing cheers from an enthusiastic crowd.