The 10th Beijing Calligraphy Competition for College Students concluded on 6 November 2022. Xie Jianli, first-prize winner, is a student in the Calligraphy undergraduate programme Spring 2022 at the Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC).

To promote the high-quality development of discipline construction and to upgrade the quality of teaching, training, and research, the Sub-committee of Literature, History, Philosophy and the Arts of the Open University of China (OUC) held its second plenary meeting and academic workshop on 8 November 2022 online and offline.

Recently, a cloud-class programme named “Sangyu Jinhui”, dedicated to lifelong learning for older adults and jointly launched by the Open University of China (OUC) and the Financial Management Department of the National Government Offices Administration, was listed as one of the “Lifelong Learning Brand Projects” released by the China Adult Education Association (CAEA).

Recently, the project “Fostering Digital Competency, Building Re-Employment Capacity, and Enhancing Well-being for Older Adults in the Digital Economy” for international exchanges and cooperation as approved by the 2022 Budget and Management Committee of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

In order to promote teaching reforms, the goal of fostering virtue through education, and teaching skills in both curriculum-based ideological and political education and art education, the Open University of China (OUC) has organised a variety of activities.

On 2 Nov. 2022, the Open University of China (OUC) invited Lin Yingxing, project leader of the China-aided Papua New Guinea “Juncao” project, and expert with the National Engineering Research Centre of Juncao Technology of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, to share his experience online.

On the morning of 2 Nov. 2022, the Open University of China (OUC) held a seminar related to its “Lectures by Famous Teachers from 100 Universities”. The event was held at the Wukesong campus, and attended both online and offline.

The opening ceremony for the second session of the Pang Zhonghua hard-pen senior seminar was held on 1 November 2022, and attended online by 342 teachers from 42 branches of the Open University of China (OUC) system.