The reporters, the first visiting press group to this remote province, were given unusual access to local party officials.
You might even pass for a peasant from a remote province.
It may seem odd that history would count for so much in this remote province.
Vietnam has announced plans to move at least 50,000 people from a remote northern province to make way for a big hydroelectric power project.
Guns are readily available and the central government weak in remote provinces.
Few in his remote province have ever been far from their villages.
But it was only the most dramatic sign that many vital public services in this remote province of 525,000 people are beginning to break down.
China has become a society on the move, where people from the remotest provinces travel routinely for work and pleasure.
But then I spend lots of time on the internet trying to share information with other supporters who live in remote provinces.
How remote a province the son governed was of great significance.