Entrusted by the Department of Language Information Management of the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Open University of China (OUC) held two online-training sessions on standard spoken and written Chinese language for a total of 440 students, including community-education and grassroots workers in counties designated for rural revitalisation, from 21 November to 2 December.
On the morning of 1 December 2022, Xu Li, former secretary of the Leading Party Group and vice chairman of China Artists Association, as well as a famous contemporary painter, visited the Open University of China (OUC).
The Faculty of Political Science and Law of the Open University of China (OUC) invited Bao Jing, vice chair of and researcher with the Chinese Public Administration Society, to lecture on “modernisation of governance in a changing world” to OUC students and teachers.
The opening ceremony of the 2022 National Lifelong Learning Week was held on 30 Nov. 2022. It was the 18th Lifelong Learning Week organised by the Ministry of Education since 2005, with the theme of "Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and Pursuing Lifelong Learning to Usher in the Future".
On 25 Nov. 2022, the central teaching and research group undergraduate programme in Public-service Management (Health Management) held discussions.
On 29 Nov. 2022, the Open University of China (OUC) held a seminar on Featured Discipline Construction & the 3rd Working Conference on the Adult-education Discipline Cooperation Programme.
On 29 November 2022, the Third Academic Committee of the Open University of China (OUC) held its second plenary session, themed “accurately promoting output of high-level academic results”. Li Song, director of the committee, a member of the OUC Party Committee, and OUC vice president, attended.
According to the seventh national population census, the number of people aged 60 and above in China has already reached 264 million, accounting for 18.70% of the total population.