The Government Work Report underlines a number of key points, including the development of fair and high-quality education; the integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education, and the promotion of preferential support for education in poverty-stricken areas; the development of ethnic minority education, special needs education, continuing education, and online education; the strengthening of the teaching team and the development of teacher ethics ; and the development of equal access to education to help each individual to change their fate and realise their dreams.
On 29th March 2018, Yang Zhijian, president of the Open University of China (OUC), was elected by the OUC Bayi School, with the approval of the OUC’s official approval (OUC Official Document 2018 No. 1), to undertake the position of council director of the OUC Bayi School.
On 28th March 2018,a pre-school education research and development public welfare fund project jointly established by the Bayi School of the Open University of China (OUC) and the China Charities Aid Foundation for Children (CCAFC) was launched in Beijing.
Since the establishment of the China Central Radio and Television University （CCRTVU） in 1982, the course Public English has been an important part of its curriculum. As a compulsory course at the Open University of China (OUC), it began to adopt English-language teaching materials in 1985, and constantly improved them, going to the "RTVU English" version in 1994 and then to the Open English Series in 2004. Along with the textbooks, the teaching of Public English has constantly been updated to meet the needs of students. At this time as many as 2 million students take the course each academic year.
On the afternoon of 28thMarch, 2018, a seminar with the theme “Unity of Knowledge and Action,” jointly sponsored by the China Educational Tourism Alliance, the Faculty of Arts and Law of the Open University of China (OUC), and the Educational Tourism Work Committee of the China Red Culture Study Society, was held in the cloud classroom of the headquarters of the OUC.
From 23-25 November, 2017, a conference titled “Quality Standards and Writing Norms for Educational Theses and Dissertations in Education-related Subjects” was held by the Faculty of Education of the Open University of China (OUC) in Kunming.
From 18-20 March, 2018, the 3rd US-China Smart Education Conference was held in Beijing.
Bathed in the strong east wind of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a documentary work collection from the third session of a series of calligraphy seminars of the Shuyuan Calligraphy Class of the Open University of China (OUC), is about to be sent to the press for printing. The Calligraphy Institute director, Cai Minji, invited me to write a preface. I am very pleased to accept because I love calligraphy art very much. I also want to take this opportunity to share my thoughts on this and exchange views with the students and my colleagues.