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Photo exhibition marks changes in 30 years
(CFP)
Updated: 2008-12-17 16:32

Two girls look at a photo during an exhibition in Beijing's Wangfujing area, December 17, 2008. The show features about 800 photos taken across the country during the past three decades to highlight the major changes China has gone through since 1978. [Asianewsphoto]

The driver of a State-owned food company got laid off in 1992; and like many other people in the rural areas,left to work in the capital.

"Of course our life is much better now," Cao told China Daily. "I have been working almost everywhere in Beijing and seen the rapid growth in suburban areas such as Shunyi and Tongzhou."

Xu Dongdong was born just five years before 1978 and has a clear memory of what life was like 30 years ago.

"When I was little, we could not afford to eat rice; only corn cakes," the doctor from Heilongjiang province said.

The generation born after the 1980s also found the photos captivating. Du Xiaomin, a 22-year-old saleswoman who was there with a friend, said: "Our life cannot be better When I was a child, I used to feel excited for days after eating out at KFC. But now KFC is just like a canteen to me."