Editor's note: In the battle with the COVID-19 epidemic, more and more fighters are coming to its front lines, including students and former students of the Open University of China (OUC). Like other fighters, no matter how ordinary, they are contributing what they can. Let's take a close look at some of their stories.

With 45 branches nationwide, including Wuhan Radio and TV University and Hubei Radio and TV University, the Open University of China (OUC) quickly extended help and support through various channels when COVID-19 broke out in China at the end of January 2019. I never knew that we could work so closely together until the disease broke out.

Editor's note: In the battle with the COVID-19 epidemic, more and more fighters are coming to its front lines, including students and former students of the Open University of China (OUC). Like other fighters, no matter how ordinary, they are contributing what they can. Let's take a close look at some of their stories.

On 24 February 2020, Jing Degang, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the Open University of China (OUC), gave a live video speech on "Patriotism and Growth,” marking the first lesson of the new term for students and staff of the OUC across China.

Editor's note: In the Gengzi New Year, a war without arms started nationwide. At a time when families should be reunited, a group of OUC students mobilised to help Wuhan and rescue patients there!

In order to implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech given on 23 February, in which he summarised the control and prevention of COVID-19 and gave an in-depth analysis of the impacts of the epidemic on the economy and society from the perspective of overall situations in China, as well as the need to strengthen the publicity and education of scientific prevention and control of COVID-19 within the system of the Open University of China (OUC).

Right now, people throughout China are united as one in the all-out fight against the epidemic. Among them are a group of people who are the key to fighting the epidemic in China’s vast rural areas, “the most vulnerable spot for epidemic prevention and control.” These people are acting steadily and carefully based on the general requirement for “duty-bound conscientiousness, responsibility, and accountability.” They are taking pains to safeguard their communities and serve rural revitalisation.

Editor's note: In the Gengzi New Year, a war without arms started nationwide. At a time when families should be reunited, a group of OUC students mobilised to help Wuhan and rescue patients there!