Google Co-Founder, CEO Tour Beijing's Go Campus

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (left) and Google co-founder Sergey Brin visit a Go training school in Beijing on Tuesday. Brin is playing a game of Go with renowned former champion Nie Weiping (not shown). Photo provided by Google

(Beijing) — Google CEO Sundar Pichai made his second visit to China in 2016 this week, extending a flurry of activity as he seeks to reset the internet giant's relationship with Beijing after a stormy falling-out more than six years ago.

Pichai and Google co-founder Sergey Brin visited a school famous for training players in the ancient board game of Go. Born in Russia in what was then part of the Soviet Union, Brin has been a critic of China in the past for its censorship policies that require internet companies to police themselves and remove content on politically sensitive topics.