From 18 to 19 April 2019, a seminar on teaching in the civil engineering and water conservancy major was held in Xiamen, Fujian Province. More than 70 people, including personnel in charge of the major and teachers engaged in pilot online teaching work from the Open University of China (OUC) system participated in the meeting.

"Specialist poultry farming such as peacocks, ostriches, and golden pheasants lacks scientific planning and the classification is incomplete.

This is the story of Tang Wenxiang, a teacher, now retired, at Hunan Radio and TV University (Hunan RTVU).

In order to enhance community education in Baotou, Baotou Radio and TV University (Baotou RTVU) has been building a three-level education system consisting of community universities, community colleges, and community schools in Qixian County.

In order to exercise the spirit of the announcement of Bachelor's Degree Conferring Work in the Open University of China (OUC), the Faculty of Economics and Management held a seminar on comprehensive graduation practice and degree granting work for three undergraduate majors (starting from junior college level) — business administration, accounting, and finance — in Kunming from 24-25 April 2019.

Professor Frank Youngman, vice president of Botswana Open University (BOU), visited the Open University of China (OUC) on 29 April 2019 while he was attending the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.

During a recent conference on education targeted at poverty alleviation of the Open University of China (OUC) in Chengdu, it was discovered out that in order to carry out the task of poverty alleviation by means of education in the deeply poverty-stricken "Three Regions and Three Prefectures" named by the Ministry of Education (MOE), the OUC plans to implement assistance programs for the construction of cloud classrooms or computer rooms, subsidising rural teachers to improve their academic qualifications and construction, and the promotion and popularisation of poverty alleviation resources for learning centres in the "Three Regions and Three Prefectures" from 2019 to 2020.

Ye Ruyi was born in an ordinary worker's family at Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province. He lost his left leg in a car accident at the age of five. However, this did not dampen his aspirations for a better life.