Motivational Training with Chinese Characteristics

Perhaps we should consider this in the US:

Wearing bamboo hats and drab grey uniforms with rice bags slung across their shoulders, a group of men and women trudge along a narrow mountain path under the scorching sun, their clothes soaked in sweat.

It looks like a scene from China's wartime past in the first half of last century or a re-enactment for a film.

But it is in fact the Communist Party of China's (CPC) latest team-building and motivational course for senior government officials. It also has the wider purpose of discouraging corruption and arrogance before they start.