The Shunyi district, just 30 kilometers northeast of Beijing's center, calls itself the "grain store of the capital" because of its large amount of farmland and resources.
In 1983, Cao Dewang decided to lease the Gaoshan Glass Factory from his village in Fuqing, Fujian province. His aim was simple: feed his family and the families of fellow village workers, and provide them with education.
China's broad private sector provides more than 90 percent of the 800 million jobs in the world's second-largest economy. That includes 237 million created by domestic private firms in urban areas, 18 million created by foreign-invested firms and 470 million rural jobs (including 210 million created by township enterprises, self-employed businesses and other rural private entities).
The remarkable growth of China's private economy over the past three decades has been crucial to making the Chinese economy the world's second largest.
Wang Yang, a 46-year-old college teacher, clearly remembers the time he lived in a small apartment in the university. Similar to the college dormitories of today, there was usually only one shared kitchen and a toilet on the same floor.
The period between 2001 and 2010, amid China's continuously expanding economy with the GDP compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) reaching 15.4 percent, has attracted rising foreign direct investment (FDI). Over the past 10 years, China's FDI CAGR averaged 9.5 percent.
For many young college graduates before the 1990s, tongzilou was an important word in their vocabulary. It referred to the low-rise apartment buildings with long central corridors, communal toilets and cooking facilities at one end.
1985: Businesses and government departments in Beijing are given permission to sell subsidized flats to their workers.
During the last 30 years, the health service system in China has made several significant strides and improved the overall health condition of urban and rural Chinese citizens. Though much of the focus in those days was on public health and preventive treatment, it also had some shortcomings. An inherent flaw of the post-1980s period was that healthcare became more of a fee-for-service available mainly to those who could afford it. There was also a constant churn of medical personnel from the rural to the urban areas, contrary to what was envisaged by policymakers.
China already has a robust healthcare system, so the World Health Organization (WHO) is targeting its work to build technical capacity and share international best practices in specific areas where there may be gaps.
An old Chinese saying dating back to over 2,000 years says food is all-important to the people. But 20 centuries later, Chinese citizens are still grappling with several food safety concerns.
When the "cultural revolution" broke out in 1966, major national newspapers called on the 600 million Chinese to join the "great movement of smashing the feudal, the bourgeois and the revisionist ideas".
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