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.

This is about a man who has been in and out of hospitals for a month, has visited four epidemic-control centres, and has gone to key traffic checkpoints. He has used pictures and words to tell how Li County in Gansu Province has been fighting the epidemic.

His name is Liu Wang, and he is a student in the Administrative Management undergraduate programme (spring 2018) of the OUC's "Long March Belt" poverty-alleviation educational project at Lixian Radio and TV University, Gansu Province, and a journalist with the Press Department of Lixian Media Convergence Centre.

In order to convey to audiences the latest developments in the fight against the epidemic in Lixian County, Longnan, he has been promptly reporting stories from its front lines and encouraging residents.

On the night of 15th of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which is the Lantern Festival, and a time for family reunions, he was busy all day long, and could not be with his family. He took his camera to traffic checkpoints, the county hospital, the epidemic-control headquarters, and the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention to interview people manning their posts that night. At the county's No. 1 People's Hospital, some of the medical staff burst into tears while communicating with family by video link. Such moving scenes kept him going for more than a month.

The news he has collected has been published by the Gansu Agricultural Information Network, Longnan Daily, Longnan Release Platforms, and other outlets.

In his words: "At first, I was worried about doing interviews at the front lines, especially in quarantine centres and hospitals. However, during the interviews, I saw Party-committee and government leaders offering guidance and inspecting work. I saw medical staff working diligently and making sacrifices, and grassroots cadres in communities and townships insisting on their duties. Their examples inspired me to persist, and I saw that for them as well as for police officers, volunteer teams, and so on, who are on the front lines of this battle, the best comfort is encouragement and support. My capacity as a journalist is to help publicise their efforts, raise awareness, and remind people to participate in fighting the epidemic."

In this war, every combatant is doing his or her part, however obscure. Liu Wang is striving to do what he can as a journalist to help end the fight.

By OUC News Network