This Day, That Year

Item from March 30, 1983, in China Daily: A music lover listens to a cassette recorder-receiver, which has been trial-produced by the Shanghai No 4 Radio Factory.

Technology has greatly changed the ways we listen to music, from the gramophone to the tape, and from the Compact Disc to the MP3.

Before the digital age, music fans had to walk into a music store to purchase cassette tapes or CDs for the songs they wanted to listen to.