A group of Harvard students brought a better understanding of China and its people back to the US after a one-week trip to the country, which ended on Sunday.

Organized by the World Youth Development Forum, 27 students from 14 different countries visited government departments, companies, cultural institutions and historical places in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing with Harvard China Trek 2016.

Harvard China Trekers communicated with senior officials and successful businessmen at places such as the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the National Poverty Alleviation Office, leading Chinese enterprise AliBaba, the Yangtze River Delta SME incubator and Chinese mainstream media.