



University students skate on a frozen Shicha Lake in Beijing in 1995.
Performers prepare for a show in eastern China's Shandong Province in 2006.
Barbers cut hair at an on-street salon near Baita Temple in Beijing in 1986.
A Shenyang heavy machinery factory in northeastern China's Liaoning Province in 2008.
People purchase cotton in western China's Xijiang Province in 2002.
Coal miners set out for work at the Fuxin strip mine in northeastern China's Liaoning Province in 2006.
Young women wait during model test in Harbin City in northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province in 2000.
A couple gets married in central China's Shanxi Province in 1998.
People take a rest at Beijing Shicha Lake Park in 1994.
Dancers perform for a crowd in northwestern China's Qinghai Province in 1986.
Bystanders watch a monkey show outside the Beijing Workers' Stadium in 1989.
Guanyuan bird market in Beijing, 1983.
Yangyibin Hutong in Dongcheng District, Beijing, in 1982.
Three men walk through Tiananmen Square in 1984. They went to Beijing to seek work.
Students watch a performance in northwestern China's Qinghai Province in 1986.
People line up along Tiananmen Square in China's capital city, Beijing, in 1979.
A boy smiles in Rongjiang village in southern China's Guangxi Province in 1979.
Farmers eat breakfast on boats in Shamian Island in southern China's Guangdong Province in 1979.
A worker counts money after the annual closing of his production team in northeastern China's Jilin Province in 1968.
Young people make a vow to join the Communist Party in northeastern China's Jilin Province in 1969.
Educated youths from Beijing give medicine to a herdsman in northern China's Inner Mongolia in 1972.
Village pupils attending class in eastern China's Shandong Province in 1976.
Three-year-old Wang Shuhong holds a copy of "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong" in 1966.
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