An advanced seminar on the construction and development of Liaoning Open University (Liaoning OU), co-organised by the Open University of China (OUC) and Liaoning OU, was held in Beijing from 11-14 October 2021. A total of 95 people, including Yi Huanbin, Liaoning OU Party secretary, Guo Yongxin, president of Liaoning OU, Wang Hongyu and Li Dongqing, vice presidents of Liaoning OU, as well as student representatives from relevant departments of Liaoning OU and various branches at the prefecture, district, and county levels in Liaoning Province, participated in the seminar.
On the evening of 14 October 2021, the finals of the 7th China International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition concluded at Nanchang University, Jiangxi. The "DIY Children's-carriage Teaching Aids" project of the Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC) won the first gold medal for Beijing in the history of the competition.
The world is undergoing some of the most dramatic changes in over a century. With the coming of the post Covid-19 era, the structure of higher education will face great changes. Open universities, which focus on open education and online teaching, have entered a period of great transformation and leap-frog development.
On 14 October 2021, on the occasion of the Double Ninth Festival, the Open University of China (OUC) held a ceremony in Beijing for the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with the China Broadcasting Network Group Corporation Ltd.(CBN).
On 12 October 2021, the National Conference on Educational Materials, and commendations of the winners of the first National Award for Educational Material Construction (NAEMC), took place in Beijing, where Sun Chunlan, vice premier of the State Council and director of the National Committee for Educational Materials (NCEM), delivered a speech. The NECM commended 999 textbooks, 99 collectives, and 200 individual winners.
On 13 October 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) and the Higher Education Teaching Evaluation Centre of the Ministry of Education (MOE) jointly launched a class to train teaching evaluators in its branches.
On the afternoon of 8 October 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) held the Third Special Report Meeting on Party History Learning and Education and CPC Party Committee Theory Learning Centre Group Extended Learning Meeting.
Having completed scholarship evaluation for 2020, the Open University of China (OUC), after verification and public announcement, decided to grant OUC scholarships to 21,999 students. 19,762 students were awarded the OUC scholarship, and 2,237 students won the OUC special scholarship for the “Long March Belt” Education Project Targeted at Alleviating Poverty.