To thoroughly implement the guiding principles of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourse on the significance of family ties, values, and traditions, and to give play the vital role of family education in fostering virtue and educating people and in school-family-society collaboration in education, the School of Education at the Open University of China (OUC) held the inaugural exchange and exhibition activity of outstanding family education cases in the new era and the award ceremony on 22 November 2024.

On 22 November 2024, Wang Qiming, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the Open University of China (OUC), also known as the Seniors University of China (SUC), led a delegation to the SUC Xiamen Branch for a research visit.

Editor's Note: General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasised at the National Conference on Education that the national education digitalisation initiative should be fully implemented, with efforts to expand the coverage of high-quality education resources and improve public services for lifelong learning.

On 21 November, the 2024 World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference commenced. Concurrently, the parallel session on "Integration of Vocational Education and Lifelong Learning" was held in Tianjin.

From 19 to 20 November, the Open University of China (OUC) held its 2024 Teaching Work Deployment Event and Plenary Meeting of the University Affairs Committee Meeting in Qingdao.

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Open University of China (OUC) and promote the creation of campus culture, on 15 November 2024, “Spring's Bloom and Autumn's Harvest, Years of Abundance”, the 45th-Aanniversary Aesthetic Education Achievements Exhibition of the OUC was launched.

On 14 November 2024, Fan Xianrui, a member of the Party Committee and vice president of the Open University of China (OUC), led a delegation to conduct research at China International Intellectech Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “CIIC”). Representatives from the OUC’s College of International Education, Experimental College, and Department of Digitalisation participated in the discussions.

Recently, the project "Chasing Innovation with Academicians: Technological Innovation Driving the Development of New Productive Forces", jointly planned by the Open University of China (OUC), the Bureau of Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the National Science Library of the CAS, was selected as a key publication topic by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for 2024. This premium resource is produced and published by the OUC Multimedia Press.