Since 1997, City to City has taken influential Bostonians on trips to major metropolitan areas. In October 2007, one such group traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou (a sister city to Boston).

In Beijing, businessman Darryl Settles (eyeing model up close) and (from left, front row) John Hancock's Carol Fulp, Richard Walker of the Federal Reserve Bank, and entrepreneur Clayton Turnbull, as well as the BRA's Kairos Shen (right of Settles) checked out a model of National Stadium, one of the sites for this year's Summer Olympics.