China had long been on my bucket list, so when I was invited to join the Seminar on Media Co-operation on World Political Parties, organised by the International Department of the Communist Party of China, I immediately accepted.
After an eight-hour flight to Beijing via Doha, I arrived at the Chinese capital where we were put up at The Mumian at Beijing Daxing International Airport so that we could rest ahead of our early flight the next morning.
Joined by translators and media representatives from around 20 countries, we flew to Jiangxi Province the next morning.
