This Day, That Year

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

An item on Feb 25, 1982, in China Daily showed workers at an optical instrument plant in Jilin province taking part in a one-year vocational course which aimed to raise their academic level.

At that time, the growing need for technical expertise had spawned increasing numbers of technical schools, evening classes and other vocational training programs in China.