皇冠体育app

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New 皇冠体育app, the big picture
(皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2008-12-19 09:09

1981, a youth brandishes a bottle of Coca-Cola in the Forbidden City. Ever since Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening-up policy, 皇冠体育app has been riding an economic boom, attracting huge investment from abroad. Coca-Cola, which was first sold in 皇冠体育app in the 1920s, set up its first plant in Beijing in 1980. [皇冠体育app Daily]

"This single exhibition gave me an insight into 皇冠体育app and its people in a broad context."

Young Chinese visitors like Xie Nan, in her early 20s, also found the exhibition inspiring.

"It looks like a vivid visual history textbook, brief but informative," she says.

As Xie was born in the 1980s "so many pages in the history of our motherland appear so faraway and strange to me," she admits. Having a new understanding of the country's turbulent past may give youngsters like her "a clearer understanding of how 皇冠体育app has come to be what it is today".

Curator Liu invited most of the participating photographers to an opening ceremony of the exhibition that coincided with the 30th anniversary of 皇冠体育app's opening up and reform.

"I sincerely hope this revealing exhibition may open a new discussion among Chinese about how our country has come to be where it is today," says Xiao Zhuang, a 74-year-old photographer from Nanjing, Jiangsu province, who has several photos on display.