The path from the Great Hall of the People's north gate to the meeting place is only 100 meters long and can be traversed in under a minute, but this ministers' pathway is a channel filled with news.
The wind finally arrived, on the eve before the opening of the annual top legislative session in Beijing, and cleared the heavy smog that had blanketed the capital for days.
The road to media convergence for a journalist is not necessarily a smooth one. But it is never too late to get started.
To my disappointment, many reporters like to run after star conference attendees, asking questions about their private lives and businesses that are irrelevant to the conference agenda or the person's role in the meeting.
Premier Li Keqiang said the government should fight against excessive use of power by people who are "renxing"-a word popular on the Internet that has gone beyond its traditional meaning of "headstrong" to also refer to someone who carelessly squanders money and power.
The agenda may become routine for a veteran reporter, but every year there are amusing moments when you hear or read some funny suggestions or proposals at the sessions.
Being a legal reporter for about five years, I find it exciting when deputies in various industries are eager to share their views on judicial issues during the annual legislative and consultative meetings.
Zhang Chunxian, Party chief of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, asked reporters if his answers to their questions were "quite something" during the open session with the Xinjiang delegation during the annual National People's Congress meeting on Tuesday.