The Open University of China (OUC) provides the general public with degree education services. It also attaches special importance to the educational needs of grassroots learners in rural, remote, and ethnic minority areas, offering degree and non-degree education services, undertaking social responsibility, and promoting educational equality.

The Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC) has conducted positive exploration, reform, and innovation, and played a leading role in comprehensively advancing the “Six-Network Integration” learner development model and Internet-based reform of the management system and operation mechanism.

Providing a variety of educational services for all members of society is an important means of enhancing the quality of the Chinese people and making China a human resources power. It is also an important part of the construction of a lifelong education system and the formation of a learning-oriented society, and a significant responsibility shouldered by the Open University of China (OUC).

On the afternoon of 25th October 2017, an inauguration ceremony for the first college to provide education services for overseas Chinese in Ningbo, Ningbo Huaqiao College, was held at May 1st Square. Yang Xiaotang, deputy party secretary of the Open University of China (OUC), Cen Guorong, party secretary of the Zhejiang Province Returned Overseas Chinese Federation (ROCF),Liang Qun, Ningbo Municipal Standing Committee member and director of the United Front Work Department, Li Chengshu, party secretary and chairman of Ningbo ROCF, Zhang Jianguo, deputy director of Ningbo Bureau of Education, and Weng Xuelian, president of Ningbo Radio and Television University (Ningbo RTVU) Community College, inaugurated Ningbo Huaqiao College.

"I have to work on the weekend, and my work has a rotating schedule. I often do not have time to attend class. Could you make the class schedule more flexible?"

On an ordinary spring day in 2013, Zhang Hongli received a call from a colleague from Beiling Campus of Shenyang RTVU, asking her whether or not the OUC digital library's resources were available for free. The caller was full of both excitement and doubt. After receiving the affirmative answer, the pleased tutor exclaimed, "This is really great!"

Electoral units across the country held Party meetings to elect 2,287 delegates, in accordance with directives from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC).

Since 2013, the Open University of China (OUC) has launched a series of special tasks, including the development of online core courses, the construction and application of the OUC Learning Network, and the creation of an online teaching team, in order to promote the reform of the “Six-Network Integration” of learner development model.