On November 30, 2012, the OUC held a ceremony to appoint Professor Yu Zhigang, China University of Political Science and Law（CUPL）， legal adviser for the OUC. The appointment aims to adapt to the new educational environment of the OUC and safeguard its legal rights, while continuing to enhance the ability to administer the university according to the law.
The “Research and Practice of the Accreditation, Accumulation and Transforming System of National Continuing Education Learning Outcomes” project was formally opened at the OUC on December 1, 2012. 10 experts from the Ministry of Education (MOE), universities and the industry have provided guidance and evaluation for the project. Ruan Zhiyong, party secretary and vice-president of the OUC, and Zhang Shaogang, vice party secretary of the OUC, attended the evaluation seminar.
On the afternoon of November 26, 2012, the Open University of China and the Academic Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ABCAS) officially signed an agreement to join hands and use their respective advantages to plan and promote a series of video lecture courses, “Science and China - Academicians and Experts Lecture Series”,
Beginning in December 2012, the Open University of China (OUC) will provide an international Chinese teacher training series for all levels of Radio and Television Universities (RTVUs), in order to satisfy the huge global demand for international Chinese teachers.
On November 23, 2012, the OUC organized the first Online Tutoring Training practical activity as part of its Application of New Technologies in Education course.
In November 2012, Yang Zhijian, president of the Open University of China (OUC), led a delegation to the Open University, UK (OUUK) and attended the 2012 International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Professor Liu Dailin from the School of Foreign Languages of the OUC, Yang Yongbo, director of the International Cooperation and Exchange
On November 6, 2012, an economic and trade delegation led by Radu Zaharia, general director of the Trade and International Relations, Romanian Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business
Environment, visited the Open University of China’s (OUC) conference center. The delegation was accompanied by Augustin Iosifescu