Dear Millers — we’re bringing our third members-only newsletter of the week to you on Friday rather than Thursday because we spent most of yesterday recording an exciting podcast about one of our recent long reads. It’s a co-production with our friends at a brilliant media company in London, and we’ll have more details about it soon.

Today’s piece is about China again — but from a different angle to last Sunday’s long read. During her reporting on that story, Jacklin noted down how different Chinese sources — bloggers, journalists, politicians — talked about Greater Manchester. We asked her to write a short piece for us today about what those sources said, to get a little snapshot of how people in China see this city and region.