When star advisers make a difference

Every spring, the two sessions attract hundreds of reporters from home and abroad. They are honored and excited to be in Beijing, but why?

Last year I had my first experience reporting on the country's two most important political meetings.

Many colleagues said they envied me because I was assigned to cover the artists' section of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. These are the stars who always stole the limelight.