Triumphs and transformations: China in 40 years

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Meet founding father of world's largest small commodities market
In turning Yiwu from an impoverished county to an international trade hub, former Party chief of Yiwu county Xie Gaohua played a pivotal role.
Society
Journey to the East: An American scholar's 4 decades in China
Professor Donald Stone goes down the memory lane recounting China's transformation and those of his own.
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Xiaogang: A tale of China's rural reform
Starting from the epoch-making household contract responsibility system, Xiaogang village has witnessed the four decades of China's rural reform and development.
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EU ambassador on China's reforms
Hans Dietmar Schweisgut speaks about China unleashing its entrepreneurial spirit and transforming its economy over four decades on the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up.
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Yiwu youth: Making shoes by hand 'like raising a child'
As one of the new generation of traders in the world's largest small commodities market, Ye Peng has inherited the enterprising and hardworking spirit of Yiwu that has made the city what it is today.
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UN official praises China's poverty reduction achievements
On this year's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, a United Nations official talks about China's work in combating poverty in the past decades as well as the U.N.'s involvement in poverty reduction work in the country.
Society
College couple finds life's work in rural China
Zhang Yu and husband Wang Tao were among the first to become village officials right out of university in Beijing. They discovered their life's mission in China's profound rural transformations.