BRITISH MP HAILS PROGRESS, FROM FASHION TO BUSINESS

Richard Graham has helped broker many important China-UK partnerships since the 1980s

Editor's note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of China's reform and opening-up policy. China Daily profiles people who experienced or witnessed the important drive.

Richard Graham still remembers the tough physical challenge of crossing 1,000 kilometers of the Taklimakan Desert in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in 1993.