Linking people a hard-won skill

METRO reporter Todd Balazovic talks to the UK-educated Li Yan on how to bridge the international and local communities.

Meet everyone and make them happy, that's a tall order for anyone to take on, but if it can be done, then 30-year-old Li Yan is the one to do it.

The Zouping, Shandong province native has spent the last three years in Beijing trying not only meet as many people as possible, but to help reconcile the mix-and-mash of cultural backgrounds converging on Beijing.