This Day, That Year

Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of New China's founding.

An item in China Daily on Jan 4, 1984, showed the delight of villagers in the Niulanghe Brigade of Xiangyuan county in Shanxi province at seeing electric light in their homes for the first time. The operation of the second generator at the county's power station had made electricity available to every corner of this coal-rich area.

Now, electric lights are seen across rural China, and new technologies, especially those that are environmentally beneficial, are bringing greater convenience to inland regions.