This Day, That Year

Item from March 9, 1987, in China Daily: A man in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, withdraws money through an automatic cash machine.

Four automatic cash machines in the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone are promoting bank savings deposits since they came into operation in December.

Installed in four branches of the Bank of China in the area, the machines, the first of their kind in China, are attracting an increasing number of people to deposit their savings.