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Central Broadcasting and Television University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Robert McCormick
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In May 1979, while on a private visit to China, I was fortunate to be able to meet staff of the Television University (Zhongyang guangbodianshi daxue). A visit to the Open University in Britain of a delegation from China's Preparatory Committee for a National Audio-Visual Centre made us aware of the establishment of the Television University. Its opening on 6 February 1979 was announced in the Beijing Review and in broadcasts.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 81 , March 1980, pp. 129 - 136
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1980

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1. In fact a member of the delegation wrote a long article on the Open University entitled “A university without students” (“ Yisuo ‘meiyou xuesheng’ de Daxue”), which appeared in People's Daily, 3 March 1979.

2. Beijing Review, No. 7 (16 02 1979), p. 7Google Scholar. Beijing home service 6 January 1979 reported in Summary of World Broadcasts, Part III, FE/6013/BII/10, 11 January 1979.

3. Abe, M., “Spare-time education in Communist China,” The China Quarterly, No. 8 (10–December 1961), pp. 149–59CrossRefGoogle Scholar. However, Wang Zunhua claims that the correspondence material was only supportive.

4. Peking Review, No. 27 (2 07 1976), p. 23Google Scholar.

5. The details in this article have been subsequently checked by Wang Zunhua when he visited the British Open University in November 1979.

6. Comrade Wang was not able to give the size of the budget stating that they were trying to find out. This probably reflects the accounting procedures of the ministry and the fact that the money may have to be found out of the current ministry budget.

7. See supra, n. 1.

8. It is claimed that, including enrolled students, some 600,000 follow the television programmes. See “Our country's Broadcasting and Television University improves continuously,” Renmin ribao, 6 September 1979.

9. This was put at 100,000 in article referred to in supra, n. 8. (Incidentally, the numbers of the various kinds of students correspond to those given by Wang Zunhua.)

10. See supra, n. 2.

11. The Beijing Television College referred to in supra, n. 3 had four hours each of television and “homework.”

12. See supra, n. 8.

13. This has been reinforced by visits to the Open University of Jiang Nanxiang, minister of Education, and by a broadcast delegation headed by Zuo Moye, deputy director of Chinese Central Bureau of Broadcasting; both took place in October 1979.