The National Open University is located in Beijing. As an institution of higher learning with adult education qualification approved by the Ministry of Education, the school was founded in 1978. 20 12 China Central Radio and TV University was renamed as the National Open University, which is a new type of institution of higher learning for open education in China.

The National Open University is a unit directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), an institution of higher learning with adult education qualification approved by the Ministry of Education, and a new institution of higher learning in China.

The school, formerly known as 1978, advocated and guided the establishment of the Central Radio and TV University. 20 12 In June, China Central Radio and TV University was renamed as the National Open University.

According to the information of official website in June, 2022, the headquarters of the National Open University has four campuses, namely Wukesong, Fuxingmen, Gong Wei Village and Weishanzhuang in Daxing, with a total area of more than 200 mu and a construction area of 6,543,800 square meters. There are 7 teaching departments, 36 adult undergraduate majors and 48 adult junior college majors; Full-time teachers 57 1, full-time teachers 150.

Running Mode of National Open University

First, strengthen the party's leadership over lifelong education. Strengthen the leadership of the Party at headquarters and branches, implement the joint meeting system of secretaries and principals, establish the decision-making mechanism of party committees, ensure the leadership and leading position of the Party in lifelong education and lifelong learning in schools, effectively implement the main responsibility of strictly administering the Party in an all-round way, significantly enhance the role of the Party branch as a fighting fortress, and highlight the vanguard and exemplary role of party member.

The second is to create a new model of large-scale network ideological and political education. Adhere to moral education first, keep in mind the great mission of cultivating new people in the era of national rejuvenation, actively explore the organic integration of "ideological and political course" and "curriculum ideological and political course", and design the "1+4+X" ideological and political theory course system.

In June, 2022, the school official website showed that a total of 6.259 million students participated in online ideological and political courses, forming a new large-scale online ideological and political education model for in-service adults, focusing on cultivating useful talents with both ability and political integrity for the grassroots.

Third, "from vertical to horizontal" covers all kinds of learners. Adhere to the open school, "respect for learning, teaching without distinction", and strive to meet the aspirations and needs of different ages, different fields and different professional groups for further study and take root in China.

It has built a school-running system that spans colleges, regions, industries and enterprises and covers urban and rural areas in a three-dimensional way. It has embarked on a route of combining social forces to run schools, integrating and optimizing the allocation of social high-quality educational resources, and running education quickly and easily, which shows the institutional advantage of "concentrating on doing great things" in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Fourth, a new university dedicated to "the Internet without walls". Adhere to the follow-up application of advanced technology, take education informatization as the foundation and core competitiveness, explore the deep integration of science and technology and education from radio, television and Internet, promote and lead the informatization development of higher education, continuing education and vocational education, and promote the modernization of education.

Five, adhere to both academic education and non-academic education. To meet the needs of the economy and society, we should set up specialties, optimize the teaching content and curriculum structure, build a network-based talent training model, and build a credit bank with the certification, accumulation and transformation of various learning achievements as the core.

Vigorously promote community education and education for the elderly, strengthen the education and training of new professional farmers and modern industrial workers, promote accurate poverty alleviation and rural revitalization through systematic linkage, and accumulate the China model of holding higher education with low cost and high efficiency and developing vocational education for on-the-job personnel.