On 22 February 2019, the Annual Work Meeting of the Open University of China (OUC) was held in Beijing.

A densely-growing clump of bougainvillea was rippling over a corner of the garden wall in a cascade of rosy clouds – at its most appealing now, in late autumn. They immediately identified Mr. Xiao Guiquan’s home for us in the sprawling mountain village.

2018 marks 40 years of China’s reform and opening up and also 40 years since Comrade Deng Xiaoping approved the establishment of the Radio and TV University.

On 13 January 2019, the Open University of China (OUC) School of Life and Health was inaugurated at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

From 10-11 January 2019, a meeting of the Open University of China (OUC) Academic Degree Evaluation Committee was held in Beijing to review bachelor’s degrees to be granted in the 2018 autumn semester. The meeting decided to award 2,235 graduates OUC bachelor's degrees, including Zhang Xiaofang.

The Credit Bank of China of the Open University of China (Learning Outcomes Accreditation Centre) recently organised a meeting to approve the learning achievement accreditation units for the software industry in China. Eighteen accreditation units for the software industry developed by the China Software Industry Association in the fields of graphic design, network management, Web front-end development, and Android development have been approved.

Modern History and Culture of North China, a collection of essays from a column in the Journal of Hebei Radio & TV University, was published recently by Hebei Education Press. The essays were selected from among 31 outstanding academic articles published in the journal’s Modern History and Culture of North China column. The book is broken into six chapters: culture, society, economy, figures, education, and military affairs.

In Tianjin’s Xiqing District, Sun Wenfeng, retired, enters the University for Older Adults to take a class in clay modeling. Over the past six years, she has created over 300 works, and taken great pleasure in doing so. Huang Yuling, who is in her sixties, is similar: in order to realise her childhood dream, she has enrolled in several such universities since retiring, studying vocal singing on Mondays, ballet on Tuesdays, recitation on Wednesdays, Peking Opera on Thursdays, and fashion on Fridays. To her, “Old age means not only grey hairs and wrinkles, but also a chance at an ideal life”.