This Day, That Year

Item from March 3, 1991, in China Daily: "Butterfly" sewing machines made by the Shanghai Xiechang Sewing Machine Factory are selling well on the domestic market, with more than 100,000 machines sold in January.

Shanghai's gross national product climbed 3.1 percent last year to hit 73.7 billion yuan ($14.2 billion) ... Shanghai had made progress in industrial growth, its agricultural harvest, the development of the Pudong New Area, and infrastructure construction, as well as science, education, culture, public health and sports.

According to statistics, Shanghai just achieved its target of 4 percent in industrial growth last year with total industrial output value of 163.3 billion yuan.