Though the interviews at Shiye lasted just one day, my impression about its residents and environment lasted longer.
Editor's note: The Communist Party of China will hold its 19th National Congress on Oct 18. In the runup to the meeting, China Daily asked a foreign secretary and Beijing-based ambassadors for views on the event and what will be of particular interest to them.
The 19th CPC National Congress has great significance for the world as the second-largest economy strives to boost interconnectivity and seek inclusive development, according to the Peruvian ambassador.
China is a giant that has moved with great ease and has achieved the type of success few other countries have, Pakistani Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua has said.
Jean-Jacques de Dardel, the Swiss ambassador to China, believes that in the past five years China has advanced its efforts in global governance and is now starting to offer its own input.
New Zealand expects to see China's continuous commitment to free trade and multilateralism at the 19th CPC National Congress this month, said John McKinnon, the country's ambassador to China.
Han Yan often wears fatigues when she teaches politics at a military college in Anhui province, but last month she donned the uniform of the Red Army, the predecessor of the People's Liberation Army, for the first time.
More than 1,684 kilometers separate Beijing and Jinggangshan, Jiangxi province, the birthplace of the Red Army - the predecessor of the People's Liberation Army - and the home of the Communist Party of China's first rural revolutionary base in the province.
Since the 18th Communist Party of China National Congress in 2012, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, has been all over the country on inspection tours.
Ma Wancheng, principal of Beijing Haidian Minzu Primary School, said he clearly remembers President Xi Jinping's visit three years ago to the school in the capital's Haidian district.
At first sight, Li Yufeng's thin and not very tall figure makes it hard to believe he can climb five floors up a drain pipe outside a building with his bare hands in just 10 seconds.
China has made unprecedented achievements in its fight against poverty since the end of 2012, when poverty alleviation was made a priority task at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a top relief official said.
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