These friends from the Pacific island countries came to China against the winter monsoon. Distant neighbors across the vast Pacific become kindred spirits.
In November, a group of parliamentarians from Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Niue, Tonga, and the Solomon Islands were in China for a series of seminars in Beijing, and field trips to villages, factories, parks, museums, and agriculture centers in Jiangxi and Fujian provinces to better perceive the Chinese society.