Haiyan’s “Lifelong Learning Week” kicked off several days ago to  guide the public to participate in lifelong learning and create a strong learning atmosphere for everyone to learn anywhere and anytime.

The theme of this year’s learning week is to “Let learning change our life”. The “Learning Week” includes such activities as “I Read with My Family” “Blue Night School” and “Public Learning Stars” and now has given six characteristic courses: studying basic knowledge of the rolling lanterns, reading “King Hui of Liang State in Mencius (a Chinese classics)” and “Chinese Mythological Stories” - a reading activity held by Hanfen Salon·Happy Reading, and studying preliminary skills of Tai Chi, the efficacy of moxibustion and basic knowledge of Haiyan Opera. Those courses are given at Zhang Yuanji Library, Haiyan College of Open University of Zhejiang, etc. The courses on Haiyan Opera and the Rolling Lanterns of Haiyan are introduced for the first time to this year’s “Learning Week” to guide and encourage people to inherit intangible cultural heritages.

In recent years, Haiyan has accelerated efforts to establish a lifelong learning system for all. As the main venue of lifelong learning for the public, Community Education College of Haiyan with rich digital and online schooling sources and quality teaching staff has built a three-level education network made up of Community Education College of Haiyan (the leader), each town’s (sub-district’s) community education centers and each village’s (community’s) school. In addition, the county has established a digital platform “Haixuetong” to intelligently manage live-streamed courses, order resources, organize knowledge challenge contests and establish integral-based shopping malls. Through the Wechat Applet of this platform, citizens can obtain such resources as 10,000 videos and 38,000 books.

Now in Haiyan there are two provincial-level high-quality universities (schools) for the elderly, three provincial-level modern community schools, two national-level lifelong learning brands, four provincial-level lifelong learning brands, one provincial-level community education demonstration base, one provincial-level demonstration base for continuing education and one citizens’ lifelong learning experience base of the Yangtze River Delta.