Before 1978, only a few dozen Chinese students had attended British universities, but that changed the following year, when hundreds made the journey.
In 1983, when British diplomat Anthony Galsworthy returned to London for a short trip in the middle of his Beijing posting, he was keen to tell his colleagues in the government about China's economic growth and market transformations.
The more than 170,000 students and scholars from China studying in the United Kingdom make up the largest Chinese student community in Europe. Meanwhile, the number of British students traveling to China has risen to nearly 10,000.
In northern Shaanxi province, Yan'an builds pillar industry around the past
Over the past several decades, Yan'an, Shaanxi province, has developed agriculture to boost incomes and reduce the poverty rate.
Being the nation's most desirable city for scientists around the world, Shanghai will continue to sharpen its technological innovation ability as it builds a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence, its top official said.
Profound economic and social changes have taken place in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region since China launched its reform and opening-up policy 40 years ago.
On Oct 23, Nabi Abudurext returned to his job as a driver at a telecommunications company in Kashgar city, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. He had recently graduated from the city's vocational education and training center that was established to help people to avoid religious extremism and lead better lives.
A series of measures adopted in recent years to prevent and combat terrorist acts in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in accordance with the law have stabilized the situation to the benefit of local people.
It was 4 am and fog shrouded the southern Indian Ocean, famous for its roaring westerly winds and unsettled weather.
After dinner on Dec 5, 2014, my wife dragged me to a shopping mall to buy me a new overcoat - however, while I was trying it on, my base called to alert me about an urgent task. I dropped everything and rushed back.
This album celebrates the 40th anniversary of economic reform and opening-up, and is China Daily's salute to the ordinary Chinese people without whose painstaking efforts China would not be the country that it is today.
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