Saturday, 29 April began the 5-day worker’s holiday in China, including Monday, 1 May—Labour Day—a statutory holiday—ending on Wednesday, 3 May. This is what we would call a ‘long weekend.’ Long weekends often see many people working in the capital Beijing travelling...
On 21 April 2023, I attended the Lanting Forum on Chinese Modernisation and the World, an important channel of China’s public diplomacy, in Shanghai, as part of the China International Press Communication Centre (CIPCC) group assignment. Hosted for the first time in...
On Sunday, 23 April, our group visited Yangpu District, an old industrial district that has embraced a forward-thinking model to improve street quality and community harmony. In particular, we went to the Yangpu District Fushun Road Community Centre and the Yangpu...
So there I was in the primaeval forest of Mangshan Mountain National Nature Reserve in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China, with its 1,000-year-old trees, climbing to Five Fingers Peak in the mist with almost zero visibility. Focusing on not looking at the sheer drop to...
During our tour of Hunan Province in China end of March into early April, in Changsha city, we visited BROAD Group, founded in 1988 and privately owned. Its hundreds of hi-tech products are uniquely generated from the group’s own research and development and exported...
