Wu Guorong, deputy secretary of the Party committee and president of the Fujian Branch, attended the meeting and delivered a welcome speech. He summarised and reviewed the significant changes in the orientation, training object and model, and school running strength of the Fujian branch over the past 40 years.

He also gave opinions on innovating teaching concept, integrating information technology, and realising green development.

Zheng Jipeng introduced the public English course, degree English examinations, the multilingual platform, the students' English writing competition, and other related work, and talked about the prospects for the further promotion of public English teaching reform in 2020.

Professor Luo Hongwei from the Guangdong branch and Associate Professor Wang Xiaohong from the Fujian Branch, representing the first and second group of pilot units for the multimodal teaching reform of public English, shared their experiences of teaching reform in terms of teaching team effectiveness, teaching reform implementation, and online and offline teaching design.

In order to improve the scientific research literacy of teachers, Professor Li Rongbao from the Foreign Languages College of Fujian Normal University was invited to give a special report entitled "Empirical Methods of English Teaching Research" for teachers. His report combined theories with rich case studies and explained empirical research methods and the proposal of research problems.

By Liu Ning,OUC