China is committed to further opening up its MOOC (massive online open courses) resources and sharing its quality education resources with other countries and regions, Education Minister Chen Baosheng said. The country now ranks first globally in the number of MOOCs and viewers, he said.

By October, the country had more than 30 MOOC platforms and 34,000 such courses. A total of 540 million people had participated in massive online open courses, and 150 million university students had received credits through them.

To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, all Chinese universities moved teaching online during the spring semester, with 1.08 million teachers producing 1.1 million online courses, he said, adding that this had laid a solid foundation for promoting the innovative development of online education and MOOCs.