Views: 41Revisiting China after years away By Chen Weihua | China Daily | Updated: 2025-10-18 This article was written by Chen Weihua, a longtime friend and veteran journalist. He spent 16 years as a foreign correspondent for China Daily, first in the US and then in Brussels, where he served as the EU bureau chief of China Daily covering Europe-China relations. Having followed China’s remarkable transformation from afar for so long, Chen Weihua returned after retirement to his birthplace, Shanghai, and set out to experience in person the country he had only been able to observe from a distance. This piece captures the first chapter of that journey: a high-speed train ride from Shanghai to Kunming, through the landscapes of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guizhou, all the way to Yunnan, a vast and breathtaking province roughly the size of Germany. Equal parts travelogue and personal reflection, it is the account … Continue reading My first glimpse of China and its natural beauty after retirement