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Three decades of documenting China

By Bruce Connolly | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-01-08 07:48
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Suburban Beijing 1987. Bicycle traffic Guangzhou 1992 [Photo by Bruce Connolly/chinadaily.com.cn]

I admit also to knowing little about the reform programs underway so seeing Shenzhen for the first time in 1987 was quite a shock. It proved so different to what I had observed over the previous days of travel within China. It was then I started to realize the significance of what was underway, about what had been launched at the end of 1978 and how the initial experiments at reform and opening-up were mostly happening around the border areas with Hong Kong. This was partly through easier access to hard currency, business expertise and worldwide connections via a major international container port.

Returning to Scotland in August 1987 China was firmly in my mind, I just wanted to learn more, to discover what was really going on for as I said, there was at that time little awareness of the foundations of change then being laid down in coastal Guangdong. I desperately wanted to return but for reasons such as finance and available time it felt then almost impossible.

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