China 2.0 Tour: It Doesn't Get Much Better

Jingshun Road, Inbound

Adjusting to a more social life offline

1745 hrs.

If you haven't been following the China 2.0 Tour online via Twitter (#china20), you should really check out the site and the linked blogs of all of the participants. They are leaving Beijing tonight and heading for Shanghai to continue their tour.

I have had the opportunity to both run and to take part in many immersion programs seeking to help executives and others learn about China from the ground up. This one was ambitions in both scope and participants: audiences do not get much tougher than a roomful of high-profile bloggers.

But this program went off so well I told The China Business Network's Christine Lu that they need to make programs like this a regular offering to organizations, individuals, and businesses who really want a crash course in the China you do not see on CNN or read about in the papers.

I'm not accustomed to doing plugs here, but if they ever get around to offering such immersion programs, they would be well worth looking into. The kinds of people you meet, the range of perspectives you get, and most important the insights you take away are phenomenal. I fancy myself something of a China specialist and was participating as such, but I probably learned almost as much as the China "n00bs" on the tour.

Comments

[Ryan]

Joined up with the tour when it hit Shanghai, and I completely agree it deserves praise for its ambition and success. Was great to meet such a diverse group of bloggers, opinionated by nature, who were doing their best to truly understand where China is at and why.

Only wish I could have gotten up to the Beijing portion, sounded like it was great. Also would have been cool to get your insights on things as well David.

[Brian]

It was great to meet both of you, Ryan and David. It was a fantastic tour and as someone who's planning on moving to China in the next few months, a hellova crash course in where China is now. David, I appreciated your insights on our first day in Beijing and look forward to keeping up with what's going on up there from your blog. The pics and vids from the tour will be posted and consolidated shortly I think.