The Open University of China (OUC) recently convened the First Plenary Session of its Third Academic Committee.

The Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting to promote its key work for 2021 on 3 September. In addition to spreading the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s recent  guiding principles on promoting key work, the meeting deployed the university’s work for the autumn semester. Jing Degang, secretary of the OUC Party Committee and president, presided over and addressed the meeting.

Recently, Mr. Zhang, who works for a small education-technology company, easily obtained his personal "credit-bank" educational data via the "Learning in Zhejiang" page of the "Zhejiang Affairs Handling (Zheliban)" app.

A series of study-tour "Landscape Appreciation" activities organised by the University for Older Adults of the Open University of China (OUC) kicked off on 25 August 2021. Its enthusiastic participants, students in the university’s Colored Ink class, visited Yuyuantan Park in Beijing to paint.

A volume entitled Beyond Distance Education: Cutting-Edge Perspectives on the Future of Global Open Universities, with Jing Degang, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the Open University of China (OUC), as chief editor, has been published and delivered by the OUC Press to global authors and received unanimous recognition and favourable comments.

Recently, the Department of Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced a list of publications selected from university presses around the country in 2021. China Spirit, which was edited and produced by the Multimedia Press of the Publishing & Media Group of the Open University of China (OUC), was successfully selected for the list.

Recently, A Choice of History: Marxism and the Birth of the CPC, a Party history featured film edited and produced by the Multimedia Press under the Publishing & Media Group of the Open University of China (OUC), was successfully included in the list of topics for key publications in 2021 announced by the General Office of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

The Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC) participated in the 7th China International Internet Plus College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition on behalf of the OUC headquarters, bringing back nine 1st-, ten 2nd -, and five 3rd – place awards in the vocational-education competition in Beijing.