对于中国远程教育来说，２月６日是个很有纪念意义的日子。２５年前的这一天，邓小平同志亲自批准筹办广播电视大学。一年后的同一天，中央电大举行了首届开学典礼。很多人不知道，正是邓小平同志本人最早提出了利用电视手段加快发展教育事业的倡议，而且在电大创办过程中给予 For China’s distance education, February 6 is a memorable day. On this day 25 years ago, Comrade Deng Xiaoping personally approved the establishment of the Radio and Television University. One year after the same day, the Central Radio and TV University held its first opening ceremony. Many people do not realize that it was Deng Xiaoping himself who put forward the first initiative of using television to speed up the development of education and gave it to the founding of TVU