UK envoy to China visits Yanan, historic party site rarely seen by Western officials

The British ambassador to China has paid a rare visit to a Chinese communist heartland where President Xi Jinping performed hard labour as a young man.
Ambassador Peter Wilson on Wednesday visited Yanan in the northwestern Chinese province of Shaanxi along with Lu Kang, vice-minister of the Communist Party’s International Department, the department said.
State newspaper China Daily said Wilson made the trip at the invitation of the International Department.

The two men toured the former...