A working train journey through China

Being sent to cover a conference in a very hot and humid Guangzhou, Guangdong province, earlier this month also involved something of a personal experiment.

While not wanting to confuse the expenses department too much (never a wise move here), I decided to fly there courtesy of Air China and take the Gao high-speed train back.

I was there to attend the second Investing in Africa Forum, and during a late-in-the-day interview with a former minister of a West African country over a gin and tonic (for him, by the way, and not me), the most animated response I got was when I mentioned this. So much for my incisive questioning on development model options.