Seventy years have passed since 1949 when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was founded. A newborn would have gray hair after 70 years, but the PRC remains young. Over the past seven decades, China has transformed...Seventy years have passed since 1949 when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was founded. A newborn would have gray hair after 70 years, but the PRC remains young. Over the past seven decades, China has transformed from weak to prosperous, and tremendous changes have happened in both social life and public sentiment. In the early days after the founding of the PRC, many things needed to be done because the nation suffered a severe material shortage. The Chinese people yearned to move past “plowing farmland with cattle and lighting houses with kerosene” and dreamed of dwelling in “modern buildings with electricity and telephones.”展开更多
文摘Seventy years have passed since 1949 when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was founded. A newborn would have gray hair after 70 years, but the PRC remains young. Over the past seven decades, China has transformed from weak to prosperous, and tremendous changes have happened in both social life and public sentiment. In the early days after the founding of the PRC, many things needed to be done because the nation suffered a severe material shortage. The Chinese people yearned to move past “plowing farmland with cattle and lighting houses with kerosene” and dreamed of dwelling in “modern buildings with electricity and telephones.”
