PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) Patriots’ President Omar Newell is representing the PNP’s young professionals on a party delegation on a 10-day trip to the People’s Republic of China.

Newell was scheduled to leave the island on Tuesday along with representatives of the PNP’s Youth Organisation, PNP Women’s Movement and parliamentary caucuses.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) — ruling political party of the world’s largest nation state — will host the PNP delegation during the official visit.

The Patriots said the tour will expose young PNP leaders to development programmes which have opened up China’s economy around a strong and sustainable market-driven system.

“The PNP respects the CPC for using state resources to educate and empower over a billion people, significantly improving their standard of living and eradicating poverty for most.

“I am eager to uncover the policies and plans within China’s education and social system that our party leader can apply across Jamaica for similar empowering effects,” Newell said.

The Patriots, said Newell, is particularly keen to know how the growing interests and voices of women and young people are represented across the CPC, in order to understand the evolving role of educated women and youth in China’s politics.

The PNP delegation includes regional chairman and parliamentarian, Mikael Phillips, and deputy general secretary, Senator Wensworth Skeffery.