Radio and Television University and institutions of higher education are the two most important components in developing China’s modern distance education. Through comprehensive in vestigation of the openfeatures and technological charateristics of modern distance eductaion and that of the chinese national situations and especially educational status, we may see that the necessity and feasibility Of cooperatively runningschools by aforementioned parties and that the forms and ways to cooperate should be comprehensively and orgamically connected. Radio and Television University and institutions of higher education are the two most important components in developing China’s modern distance education. Through comprehensive in vestigation of the openfeatures and technological charateristics of modern distance eductaion and that of the chinese national situations and especially educational status, we may see that the necessity and feasibility Of cooperatively runningschools by the parties parties and that the forms and ways to cooperate should be comprehensively and orgamically connected.