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The National Open University, founded in 1978, is a unit directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and an institution of higher learning with adult education qualification approved by the Ministry of Education. As of June, 2022, the National Open University consists of 1 headquarters, 45 branch schools and 3,735 learning centers. The headquarters has four campuses: Wukesong, Fuxingmen, Gong Wei Village and Daxing Weishanzhuang, with a total area of more than 200 mu and a construction area of 6.5438+0.3 million square meters. There are 7 teaching departments, 36 undergraduate majors and 48 specialist majors. Full-time teachers 57 1, full-time teachers 150.

The National Open University is a new university based on the Central Radio and TV University and local radio and TV universities, supported by modern information technology, covering urban and rural areas throughout the country, paying equal attention to academic education and non-academic education, facing all members of society and without walls. There are 3.59 million students in school, including 6.5438+0.05 million undergraduates and 2.54 million junior college students, including nearly 200,000 farmers, 6.5438+0.000 non-commissioned officers and more than 6,000 disabled students. The establishment of the National Open University marks that the radio and TV university system has embarked on a new journey at a new historical starting point.

Since the British Open University was founded in 1970s, the National Open University has increasingly become an important trend in the reform and development of higher education in the world. It takes open education as its basic feature, emphasizes the openness of educational ideas, school-running methods, learning objects and educational resources, and provides opportunities and services for every member of society who has the desire and ability to learn. "The establishment of the National Open University is by no means a simple name change of the Radio and TV University, but a strategic transformation that conforms to the national development needs and technological development trends." Yang Zhijian, president of the National Open University, said at the symposium on the cultural construction of the National Open University held on June 5438+0: "Historically, although the Radio and TV University has the nature of an open university, it is not open enough to fully meet the actual needs of the developing economy and society."