China's rapid growth since it embarked on reform and opening-up in 1978 has not only created an economic miracle for the country but also provided a new development model for other emerging economies to look to, according to Martin Jacques, author of the global best-seller When China Rules the World.
Innovation will help China develop a knowledge economy as the country enters its next stage of reform and openingup, Oxford University scholar Fu Xiaolan said.
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.
Li Yongjie can still vividly recall the details of the first brain operation he conducted to treat Parkinson's disease after he returned from the United States 20 years ago.
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common movement disorders that Li Yongjie and his colleagues at the Beijing Institute of Functional Neurosurgery have been fighting over the past 20 years.
The original, natural environment of 800-year-old Huanggang village, in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province, entranced Xu Zhengxue when she visited for the first time early this year.
A wife, a radio and a herd of sheep are 78-year-old Wei Deyou's only companions on a vast, barren prairie called Sarbulak in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
In September last year, despite having serious heart disease, Shao Ming'an, a noted geophysicist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, asked his doctor to unclip his heart monitor and other medical equipment so he could leave the hospital temporarily.
This is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Hou Jianguo, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at the launch ceremony of the academy's first education center on patriotism in July.
Xiao Wei works for a leading video-streaming company in Beijing and earns a good monthly pre-tax salary of 40,000 yuan ($5,800 ). His earnings impress friends and family in his home province of Anhui.
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