I'm inclined to take it easy. I need to rest and sleep.
In the afternoon I go out to make some phone calls from the post office, and then wander around the horse festival, or 'Sai ma hui'. The tents are beautifully emroidered. Inside, a group of migrant Chinese workers have paid a few cents to pose in front of the Potala Palace.
Gong Jianping knows a journalist in Naqu, a fellow who was transferred from Hangzhou, where he knew Jianping, perhaps through Jianping's ex-wife, who is a journalist. This guy knows an economic planner in town, also from Hangzhou, and the three of them get together. The planner is acquainted with the Party secretary of Naqu, who sees in Jianping's efforts to garner publicity for the trip an avenue to promote Naqu. After all, Jianping is phoning in regular reports to the Hangzhou Daily about the trip.
A China Central Television (CCTV) director is in town on a project for the TAR tourism bureau, which has commissioned him to make a promotional video for the province. Naqu's horse-racing festival will provide some footage for the video. The Party secretary has put him, as well as a reporter and cameraman from New China News Agency (Xinhua), in touch with us; both have expressed interest in turning their lenses on us.