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The morning air remains crisp in China’s capital, Beijing, as many look forward to spring in next month.
When residing in the “North Capital”, one recalls hosting friends visiting from South Africa who had underestimated the chill of a Beijing winter. Visiting the Forbidden City, with its frozen encircling canal, was particularly cold.
Yet, as the more than 2 100 political advisers from across China leave Beijing to return to their home towns and cities, they would know that a clarion call for a “new spring” has
