She helps convey Xi's message to the world

Holly Snape saw less of two things while growing up in Yorkshire in the 1980s - ginger and diversity.

But her travels to India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other parts of Asia at the time made up for what she says she couldn't find enough of in her home county in Britain.

Snape, who works for the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, an affiliate of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee, first visited China nearly two decades ago, when she along with her late mother took a cruise on the Yangtze River from Shanghai to Chongqing.