40 Yrs on: Photos Show China Now, Then

Students wait for a school bus in Beijing, 1979. [China Daily/Adriano Madaro]

An exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up was held on Saturday, reflecting the changes over the past 40 years through photos taken by Chinese and foreign photographers.

Referring to a series of photographs taken by five foreign photographers in about 1978, photos taken at the same sites reflecting similar scenes are collected nationwide to show the 40 years' changes in a more intuitive way.

Let's take a look at these changes through the following photos.

Students peer at their mobile phones while waiting to cross the road at Dongdaqiao in Beijing's Chaoyang district, Sept. 18, 2018. [China Daily/Wu Hong]

Workers are seen at a factory in Datong city, North China's Shanxi province, 1973. [China Daily/Bruno Barbey]

Workers pose for a group photo in the workshop of a cable production company in Suzhou city, East China's Jiangsu province, July 31, 2018. [China Daily/Tian Ming]

Newlyweds pose for simple wedding photos in Shanghai, in August 1980. [China Daily/Bruno Barbey]

Newlyweds pose for elaborate wedding photos at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Sept 18, 2015. [China Daily/Li Jun]

Two men watch a show on electrotechnics on a TV in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, in 1987. [China Daily/Yann Layma]

A senior citizen watches a health education show on TV in Yanjiao, North China's Hebei province, Feb. 5, 2015. [China Daily/Kou Shangmin]

(Source: China Daily)