This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up, also the 38th birthday of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The underdeveloped fishing village before the 1980s has now turned into the most innovative metropolis.
Students in Vietnam greet China. The 40 years of reform and opening-up in China has promoted an increased interaction between Chinese people and the rest of the world.
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.
China Reform and Opening – Forty Years in Perspective Shattering the iron rice bowl Editor's note:Laurence Brahm, first came to China as a fresh university exchange student from the US in 1981 and he has spent much of the past three and a half decades living and working in the country. He has been a lawyer, a writer, and now he is Founding Director of Himalayan Consensus and a Senior International Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization.
