Faisal Kidwai pays a visit to amuseuminMaotai town, Guizhou province,to record stories about the Red Army. Zhang Xingjian/China Daily
Recent achievements
Kidwai observed the same spirit in Guizhou. He said he was struck by how far the province has come in such a short time. In 1978, its per capita GDP was less than one-half the national average, but now the southwestern province is posting double-digit growth and cruising on the information superhighway.
The press tour has been trending online since it began. As of Monday, 116,195 related entries had been published online, and there have been 74,107 posts on Sina Weibo - China's Twitter-like service - alone. The two official articles about the event garnered 640 million views.
China Daily's foreign reporters have written a number of articles to record their journeys, which can be found on chinadaily.com.cn.
"I hope to provide an outside perspective on a part of history that my Chinese counterparts have known all their lives. I believe I can shine a different light on issues we encountered that have already been framed in a certain way by the media that came before us," O'Neil said.
