A 'sense of gain' comes from the wow factor

Last week, I interviewed Chen Jingyu, a leading lung transplant surgeon and legislator from Jiangsu province who is in Beijing for the annual two sessions. I wrote a story about how he has continued to perform operations during his stay in the capital.

The next day, when the story was published, he told me with excitement that the world's top lung transplant experts had read it and suggested he share the article with Western colleagues at international conferences to show the great progress China has made in this field.

When I read his message, I thought "Wow!" As a journalist, I was filled with joy to know my work had helped increase a person's "sense of gain", a concept introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2015.