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How are mayors elected in China? How do city-level governments exercise their power? How do they make sure people's needs are met? In Face To Face With Mayors, Xinhua's Miao Xiaojuan travels with experts from around the world to find out how Chinese democracy is practiced in real and local terms.

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-30 degrees Celsius? Check! 50 layers of clothing? Check! Youngest fisherman to show us the ropes? Check! Xinhua journalist Miao Xiaojuan and her friend Lucien Pang are all set for a Mongolian ice fishing adventure on Chagan Lake!

To find out how China has changed between its two Olympics, Xinhua journalist Miao Xiaojuan hit the streets of Beijing, and then sat down with three expats who have experienced firsthand the many changes in this fast-paced country.

If Western media were to be believed, Xinjiang would be a land of concentration camps and forced labor. Xinhua journalist Miao Xiaojuan and U.S. experts sat down with spokesmen of the region to discuss these explosive allegations and how best to bridge the growing gap between East and West.

What are human rights to the Chinese? Do people in China have freedoms? Is China authoritarian or democratic? Xinhua journalist Miao Xiaojuan and three American experts talk about these issues head on. Click here to find out!

What do the Chinese have to say about democracy, freedom and human rights? Xinhua journalist Miao Xiaojuan and three American experts discuss and deliberate their findings after spending months traveling across the country seeking answers. Click to find out!

#InsideChina: In this documentary, 3 US experts join Xinhua's Miao Xiaojuan on #ADiscoveryTour across the nation to learn what the Chinese people have to say about democracy, freedom and human rights. Join us as we seek to better understand this frequently misrepresented country!

To say COVID has changed the world would be an understatement. Xinhua's Miao Xiaojuan invites three media and communications professionals -- Monica Guy in New York City, Rahul Venkit in Brussels and Will Glasgow in Sydney, to share their highs and lows from this global crisis and find out how it has changed their life and work.

In this episode, host Miao Xiaojuan continues the conversation with two American guests on Tibet. Together they meet locals who are willing to discuss just about everything, and learn about the region’s overall development. What are their views on Tibet? Click to find out!