Following a 36-hour round-trip to Beijing last year, my ears buzzed for a month.
The secretary's visit marks the highest-level interaction between the sides since former defense secretary Leon Penetta's brief trip to Beijing in September.
Some observers saw his trip to Beijing last year as increasing the likelihood of the MP becoming an unofficial special envoy to China for Tony Blair.
In all likelihood, New Delhi rushed a deal so that its foreign minister could go ahead with a scheduled trip to Beijing this week to prepare for Li's visit.
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For most visitors it means a trip to Beijing, then to Yanji in China's Jilin province, by car to Tumen City on the border and then by car to Rajin.
Our train averaged 185 miles per hour during the 923-mile trip from Shanghai to Beijing.
The trip from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance of about 1, 120km, costs far more by road than it does to fly.
Second, despite having lived in the USA for 8 years now, on any given day I am likely to be wearing something purchased on my last trip to Shanghai or Beijing.
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President Boris Yeltsin's Beijing trip, scheduled to begin April 24, should be quiet by comparison.
The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, will be heading to Asia next week for his first trip to the region in the new job - with stops in Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul.
Following the trip to the Middle East, Mr Kerry will travel to Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo.
The trip included visits to the forbidden city and great wall of China in Beijing, the terra cotta warrior museum in Xi An and the Bund and French Concession in Shanghai.
This is his first trip to China, so he's very much looking forward to seeing Beijing.
The President noted that Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will visit China next week and that Secretary of State John Kerry will also visit Beijing in the coming weeks as part of his upcoming trip to Asia.
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