I. Professor Chen Lidan won the first prize in the monograph category of the Fifth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Marxist Studies.

II. Professor Zhou Yong won the " BaoGang Education Fund Outstanding Teacher Award".

III. The major project of the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education under the leadership of Prof. Zhong Xin, "Research on System Dynamics of the Evolution Mechanism of Internet Public Opinion in the Era of Micro-Communication" was established.

IV. Prof. Chen Lidan, a full-time researcher of the Center, gave a lecture on the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "Xi Jinping's View of News and Propaganda".

V. Professor Zhao Yonghua delivered a speech on "The Narrative Principle of "Telling China's Story" for Media and Think Tanks" at China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong.

VI. Briefings on the academic activities of the Center's full-time researchers.

VII. Briefing on the Research Results of Full-time Researchers of the Center.