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CHINA DAILY - Thursday December 18,2008
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The government yesterday waived business tax on real estate sales and relaxed mortgage policies for second-home buyers in the latest attempt to buoy the sluggish property market.
Students from Beijing Nationality University pose for pictures at a photo exhibition in the capital city's Wangfujing area yesterday. The show features about 800 photos taken across the country during the past three decades to highlight the major changes China has gone through since 1978.  Xu Jingxing
The Reform Years
In 1974, 25-year-old Sun Hongchun married Chu Wenfa, the 10th child in an extended family of some 60 members in Shandong province. Sun would hear her mother-in-law - whose generation of women had an average of 12 births - complain about how hard her life was with so many children.
Comment
This year, our country marks the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening up process that has had a profound impact not just on China, but also on the rest of the world .
Opinion
There is a silver lining for developing nations in the present crisis, for they will emerge with a much bigger say in the institutions that govern economic globalization.