Kicking off a whole new approach

How long-term thinking can help realize China's goals on the pitch

English Premier League club West Bromwich Albion will travel to Shanghai this summer - a much easier journey than its previous visit to China, nearly four decades ago.

The 1978 trip took 90 hours, starting from London's Heathrow Airport on a flight that stopped in Rome, Bahrain, Calcutta and Hong Kong before a train ride to Guangzhou and another flight to Beijing.