Meeting offers key insight on reforms

Five years ago, I was reporting on the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, recording new signals of the country's financial sector development.

And 10 years ago, I was studying finance in Scotland, the home of Adam Smith's modern economics theory, reading a newspaper reporting the collapse of Lehman Brothers in Wall Street.

Instead of being a financial practitioner sitting in a five-star office building in Beijing's central business district, I have chosen to be a news reporter to closely watch the fast development of China's financial sector.