CDEL Unveils College Cooperation Program

BEIJING, May 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- China Distance Education Holdings Limited DL ("CDEL", or the "Company"), a leading provider of online education in China focusing on professional education, unveiled its College Cooperation Program on Friday, May 8, 2015 at a press conference held at The Beijing Convention Center.

The press conference was well attended with over 200 attendees, including leadership from more than 100 Chinese colleges and universities, in addition to representatives from China's mainstream media.

Zhengdong Zhu, Chairman and CEO of CDEL, commented, "We are very excited to unveil our College Cooperation Program, which enables us to deliver our industry-leading accounting educational content and services to college and university students, in partnership with colleges and universities. We believe the College Cooperation Program offers strong benefits to all parties involved. Our students will benefit greatly from our blended learning model, which combines our professional-grade accounting content and services with practical training, internships, and employment guidance and recruitment services. Our college and university partners will be better able to attract and serve students by offering accounting programs which have a strong practical underpinning. And employers will be able to take advantage of our Big Data solutions to identify and recruit students based on their needs."

CDEL's College Cooperation Program is aimed at extending the Company's reach into colleges and universities through a four-step program focused on accounting curriculum:

I.    Online-Offline Blended Learning: CDEL will work hand-in-hand with its college and university partners to deliver a blended online-offline learning program where students can prepare for accounting related certifications and qualifications.

II.    Practical Training: CDEL will provide students practical accounting training courses to prepare them for real-world accounting work.

III.   Internship: CDEL will assist students in obtaining virtual internships in accounting where interns can access job-related tasks using CDEL's accounting cloud services.

IV.  Employment Advisory & Recruitment: CDEL will offer students employment guidance services to help them prepare for job opportunities. Using CDEL's Big Data analysis, the Company will match students' job desires with employers' recruitment needs to assist both students and employers in their respective job searches.

About China Distance Education Holdings Limited

China Distance Education Holdings Limited is a leading provider of online education in China focusing on professional education. The courses offered by the Company through its websites are designed to help professionals seeking to obtain and maintain professional licenses and to enhance their job skills through our professional development courses in China in the areas of accounting, healthcare, engineering & construction, and other industries. The Company also offers other professional education courses for the national judicial examination, online test preparation courses for self-taught learners pursuing higher education diplomas or degrees, test preparation courses for university students intending to take the nationwide graduate school entrance exam, and online language courses. We also offer third-party developed online courses through our Online Open Learning Platform, a proprietary education platform that allows people to share their educational content or deliver live courses online. For further information, please visit http://ir.cdeledu.com.

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