This is an old photo from 1991 that features over 20 tourists who formed the PRC’s first non-governmental outbound tour group. They were about to fly to Thailand from Jiangsu, China. Restrictions to folk exchanges between Southeast Asia and China were quietly changing. By this year, China had established diplomatic relations with all the members of today’s ASEAN, and China’s Foreign Minister was invited for the first time to attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. Dialogues between the two parties were thus opened, touring Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand had become the most fashionable consumption at that time, and photos of China’s Great Wall, scenery in Guilin, etc., had also entered the albums of Southeast Asian families.