Ancient Chinese society was dominated by a patriarchal clan system, in which the blood relationship was regarded as the most important social connection. Therefore the sense of a clan is deeply rooted in the minds of ancient Chinese people, and was actually a tightly united group. However nowadays this concept has quite faded away. In this lecture we will get to know some ideas about how a Chinese clan is defined and the scope it covers.
With the aim of further exploring the model and working mechanism of community education, and vigorously advancing the construction of experiment centres (bases) for community education, the 2015 National Community Education Seminar of the Ministry of Education (MOE) Research and Training Centre for Community Education (hereafter shortened to “the Centre”) convened in Changchun, Jilin Province from June 10–11.
From May 26-28, 2015, the second Liwa Book Fair was held at the Training Base for International Chinese Teachers at the East China Normal University in Shanghai.The OUC Chinese Language Centre (MyEChinese) was invited to exhibit its independently researched and developed materials, teaching resources and distance teaching services to teachers and students in the field of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. In this exhibition, the intelligent teaching cloud space for individual teachers, launched for the first time by MyEChinese Intelligent Teaching Platform, drew visitors interest.
I. Serving agriculture, rural development, and farmers is the top priority.
Hunan is a province with a large population mainly engaged in agriculture. Of its population numbering 67.372 million, 50.7% are farmers. As far as Hunan’s future is concerned, the focus is on rural development, the foundation is agriculture, and the key is farmers.
On May 28, 2015 the inauguration ceremony of the “Anhui RTVU Village Library”, donated and founded by the RTVU at Caobei village, Zhaoji township in Taihe county, was held in Anhui RTVU’s targeted poverty alleviation unit - the Maying Primary School.
In 2012, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have sparked great interest worldwide as an irresistible development trend. Renowned national and international universities and educational institutions set out to study and develop MOOC platforms one after another. Cooperation was carried out in the development of courses and platforms, in the mutual accreditation of certificates, and in credit transfer, and achievements were shared. MOOCs have brought great changes to online education and even traditional education.
Based on the fact that students participating in the “One College Student per Village” pilot programme in rural areas of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region live in remote and scattered areas and lack the channels to acquire knowledge and information due to relatively limited access to the Internet, Inner Mongolia Radio and TV University(IMRTVU) recently founded “One College Student per Village" Learning Newsletter to meet the learning needs of students in rural areas.
"Mass entrepreneurship and innovation" has become one of the most frequently used buzzwords over the past few months. On March 8, 2015, in a government work report Premier Li Keqiang emphasized the creation of dual engines of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and increasing public goods and public services.