BEIJING — China launched an international online teaching service on April 28, offering 193 online college courses for global students for free amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic.

Entitled iCourse, the online teaching service was established under the guidance of Ministry of Education.

A total of 60 high-quality Chinese universities and colleges have uploaded their courses in fields including medicine and epidemic containment, economics, natural science, art, engineering, and agriculture to iCourse.

The service will update more courses of different themes according to the feedback of overseas users.