This Day, That Year

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

An item from Nov 23, 2001, in China Daily showed police checking ivory products in a crackdown in Fujian province.

In 1981, China signed the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. In 1989, the sale of ivory was prohibited worldwide after the African elephant population fell to 600,000 from 1.2 million in a decade.