Friends: Please see < http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2015/10/23/springer-nature-open-research-day/>. Here is an excerpt. Dr. Xiaolin Zhang, the former director of National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences gave an informative presentation on the development of Open Access in China. Dr. Zhang emphasized the strong support to public sharing of knowledge from Chinese government by quoting the speech from the *Premier of China*, Mr. Keqiang Li, at the GRC Annual Conference 2014, “Knowledge is a public good. A more open environment will enable everyone to share the fruits of knowledge and promote inclusive development…, *China will support open access for publicly funded research* .” He pointed out that the two open access mandates issued by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences have facilitated the public access to research articles funded by the two major funding agencies. In addition, Dr. Zhang shared his expectation for the future of open access in China. He wished that other funding agencies, such as Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology of China, as well as Chinese universities could issue their open access mandates to support funded researchers sharing their findings with the public. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.