China, Then and Now

[Randy W]

China, Then and Now

 

from Reuters the Wider Image (hopefully, won't cause you any headaches trying to view). 30 years and beyond

 

People push their bicycles across a railway track during rush hour in Shanghai.

 

Lines of cars are pictured during a rush hour traffic jam in central Shanghai.

 

 

Over the past 30 years China has been through drastic changes, most notably the economic reforms of the late 1970s and early 1980s, which brought with them shiny high-rise buildings and industrial centres where farms, markets and fishing villages once stood.

 

Reuters photographers have been documenting this transformation over the decades.