This Day, That Year

Editor's note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.

The item from Aug 23, 1984, in China Daily showed robot salesmen attracting scores of eager young customers to an advertizing display at a shopping mall in Shanghai.

As technology advances, robots are predicted to lead the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, replacing more than 5 million jobs around the world by 2020, a report released in 2016 by the World Economic Forum said.