Closer Look: The Odyssey That Was Reporting on the Railway Industry

For all of 2011, colleagues Gu Yongqiang, Wang Chen and I were kept busy reporting stories about the country's high-speed railway system. This industry attracted unprecedented attention from the public that year for three reasons: the investigation into former railway minister Liu Zhijun, problems arising due to a slump in investment in the sector and a fatal crash in Wenzhou.