Police questioned me getting on a bus and later a small army of police pulled over the bus, removed my bags (believe it nobody asked me) tore into the bag like a great big bust was going down. Of course they discovered my underwear and bags of farmland rice.

When asked what the hell was going on they 'explained' that there was an international conference with many foreigners coming in and so they were checking for drug smuggling. Also several people at the bus station 'reported' seeing a foreigner get on a bus.

Now, I may not be the worlds leading expert on Public Relations, how to hold international conferences but it would seem to me that this is the time you DONT want to be pulling over coach buses to drag the foreigner out and pull all the bags onto the side of the road with a small posse of police all excited about the big action while everyone else watching is taking pictures or getting freaked out/excited etc.

I'm mean maybe in the middle of 'welcoming the world' just a suggestion is y'know.. even IF you think its suspicious to see foreigners arriving during the week foreigner are expected and invited to arrive.... maybe.. y'know maybe wait until the bus arrived and the foreigner was exiting and just super quietly do a 'routine bag check'.

I mean granted I don't know 'Chinese ways' but its seems like maybe my advice is something they could try next time.