China unveiled a list on Wednesday of 100 outstanding private entrepreneurs on the 40th anniversary of the country's reform and opening-up. Alibaba chairman Jack Ma and Tencent chairman and CEO Pony Ma were among the entrepreneurs listed by the United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee and All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce to highlight the reform and opening-up.
(People's Daily Online Overseas Edition) In celebration of the 40th anniversary, a series of real stories from Chinese people have been gathered below, to reflect the positive changes brought by China's reform and opening up over the past four decades. The Pamirs: From kerosene lamps to electric lamps In the hinterland of the Pamirs in northwest China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region lies a base of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, with no more than four hours of sunshine every day due to the two 5,000-meter snow mountains on either side.
Zheng Ruishun, 78, an amateur photographer in Fengdu county in Chongqing, has been recording the changes in his hometown since China's reform and opening up in 1978. (Photo provided to chinadaily.
Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo meets Filipinos living in Chengdu, Sichuan province at a Philippine-invested shopping center in Chengdu on June 6, 2007. SHAO XING/FOR CHINA DAILY Former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo first visited China in 1975 Former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has a sentimental attachment to China, and as a frequent visitor to the country since her first trip in 1975, she has witnessed epochal changes in the past 40 years.
