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Partly because of this I have only been to mainland China six to seven times since I arrived in Hong Kong five years ago, so when I got the chance to go on this rare, government-organized trip, I jumped at the opportunity.

We spent the week on a bus touring from one town to another meeting with local officials and visiting some of the province’s top companies, both domestic and foreign, such as BYD (battery and electric car manufacturer), TCL (electronics) and Nokia (cell phone). After taking in some of the province’s main industrial hubs including Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou we ended up in the provincial capital, Guangzhou.

For sure, we were taken to only those places the government wanted us to see, and the tone of meetings with most Communist Party officials was one of cautious optimism about an economic recovery. Buy chantix without prescription, Still, we were free to ask as many questions as we wanted, and some of the leaders struck me as being quite open.

What’s more, the trip allowed me to meet with fellow journalists including local mainland Chinese journalists. Over the course of the week as we made our way around the province, I gleaned from snippets of conversations with Chinese mainland journalists that being a reporter there is frustrating and difficult. Self-censorship by Chinese media outlets, together with external pressure to avoid “taboo” subjects, means that many of the intelligent young mainland journalists on this trip must think carefully before choosing an angle for their stories. For example, is China’s largest petrochemical complex in coastal Huizhou a boon for the district’s economy. Or is it at odds with the region’s self-proclaimed desire to be a center for tourism, buy chantix without prescription. Pointing out inconsistencies in the government’s economic development plans could prove difficult even for the most creative mainland journalist.

That said, things seem to be improving, albeit at a snail’s pace. The very fact that local and foreign reporters were allowed to mix with each other and discuss freely is one sign that things could be improving. But press freedom as we know it in the West may never reach China. In my next entry, I will write about my meeting with Chinese Communist Party’s party secretary for Guangdong, Wang Yang, who explained why freedom of speech in China “has its conditions” and that “different countries have different interpretations.”.