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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 29 On Modern Distance Education open thinking 1 Introduction Social development, the progress of time, especially in a learning society and the advent of information society, lifelong education has become the world’s education, their direction, trend and trend of scientific and technological development so that it is not only necessary but also possible. Throughout the 20th century, the trend of education around the world start with primary education, followed by secondary education, since the second world war, the same trend occurred in the post-secondary education, namely, higher education and continuing education, mass higher education with the traditional elite education needs a completely different kind of educational structure, so this came into being Open and Distance Education. Distance education, with the development of information technology generated a new type of educational method is to build a life-long learning system for knowledge-based economy, one of the principal means, and has become a common trend in the development of global education, as the text-based distance education experts Professor said, “Open and Distance Education should be the Governments, nationals in the 21st century, the first choice for life-long learning.” Distance Education in China by the party and the country’s attention. Comrade Jiang Zemin clearly pointed out that “the development of lifelong learning is an inevitable trend in today’s society, we must gradually adapt and improve an enabling lifelong learning, the education system,” “should rely on distance education network to form a covering urban and rural areas of the open education system, in order to various members of society, to mention a multi-level, diversified education services. “Ministry of Education in the” 21st Century Action Plan for Invigorating Education “will be” the implementation of ‘distance education’, the formation of an open teaching network and build li