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It has been 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and Chinese society has witnessed tremendous changes over that period. But one thing that hasn't changed is the daily work of everyone. China has grown from a closed and underdeveloped country to an open and progressive one, with the majority of people now enjoying the fruits of a miraculous achievement in human development. Through a series of images, we are proud to showcase the great strides China has taken over the past seven decades.
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Left: Girls play a skipping game with rubber bands in 1962. Xia Daoling / For China Daily Right: Children compete in a balance bike race in Handan, Hebei province, on Sept 5 last year. Hao Qunying / For China Daily |
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Left: Three postwomen prepare to leave the Beijing Post Office for work in 1951. Niu Weiyu / Xinhua Right: People watch a courier robot developed by online retailer JD launch its first delivery service in Zhongguanchun, Beijing, on June 18 last year. Yu Chen / For China Daily |
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Left: Li Zhaodi, a teacher at a voluntary school at Anxia village, Longquan county (today’s Fengyang village, Longquan city), Zhejiang province, teaches a farmer to read Chinese characters, in 1958. Xu Yonghui / Xinhua Right: Students from Australia learn Chinese calligraphy at Pingjiang Experimental School in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, on Sept 22, 2017. Wang Jiankang / For China Daily |
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People gather on Tian'anmen Square to participate in the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China on Oct 1, 1949. Xinhua |
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People take photos of flying pigeons released after a flag-raising ceremony on Tian'anmen Square on Jan 1. Ai Jingwei / For China Daily |
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People hold a welcoming ceremony for the first train to arrive at the railway station in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, from Chongqing, then the largest city in Sichuan, in 1952. Xinhua |
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A Fuxing high-speed train leaves the rail yard for bullet trains in Tianjin on April 9. Yang Baosen / Xinhua |
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Workers assemble the country's first generation of Hongqi (Red Flag) limousines for top Chinese leaders at a factory of First Automobile Works (now FAW Group) in Changchun, Jilin province, in 1958. Xinhua |
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Workers check the quality of Hongqi cars at the general assembly plant of FAW Group in Changchun on April 9. Xu Chang / Xinhua |
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Fan Qidong (third from left), a teacher at Shanghai Agriculture School, watches his students analyze a soil sample in a lab at the school in 1959. Zhao Cheng / Xinhua |
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Volunteers work in an experiment module at the sealed and self-contained Lunar Palace 1 laboratory at Beihang University in Beijing on May 10, 2017 during a 365-day experiment simulating life on the moon. Kong Xiangming / For China Daily |
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A judicial official in Liling, Hunan province, gives marriage certificates to Quan Yusheng (middle) and Sun Guihua from Baitutan village in 1952. Mao Songyou / Xinhua |
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A couple joyfully display their marriage certificates at the Haigang district civil affairs office in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, on Aug 7. Cao Jianxiong / For China Daily |
(China Daily Global 10/01/2019 page8)
