An Ge-Living in the Age of Mr. Deng Xiaoping

Living in the Age of Mr. Xiaoping Deng is a photography series by An Ge. He worked as a photographer and took lots of photo of people's living scene during the reform and opening up period in China. From the northeast part of China to Hong Kong and Macao, An Ge's footprints can be found in most provinces and cities in China. Through An Ge's lens, we can see the economic phenomena of China, such as establishing special economic regions, the sino-soviet boarder trade, China's first beauty contest; and the daily life of people like farmers raising pigs, craziness of the football fans, and struggle of the laid-off workers… The photos vividly show the change of Chinese society in the age of Deng Xiaoping and broadly document people's life and expressions in detail.The photos won An Ge the third prize of the Chinese Modern Photographer Award in the 2002 Pingyao International Photography Show (PIP).

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Wang Wenlan-Art of Living from Reform and Opening up

Wang Wenlan is the vice chairman and permanent executive member of Chinese Photographers Society. He gained the government allowance for the technicians granted by the State Council. Wang severed as a juror of jury for national photo shows, international photographic exhibitions, reportage photography shows and China Golden Statue Award. The anthologies of photographs published by him include Jingwei, About Eminent Persons, Floating Great Wall, the Twinkling of an Eye and China Records. "Strolling around the Square" and "Chinese and Foreign News Portraitures" Photo Exhibition held by him was showed in the China National Museum of Fine Arts.Wang Wenlan believes that a photographer's most important task is to record a nation's change and revolution. Wang has covered lots of historical events and recorded moments of people's daily life of different classes. These images have become valuable visual materials showing the ups and downs during the thirty years and the development of China.

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Reform & Opening up-Culture

After 30 years of reform and opening-up, China has made enormous achievements in the economic, political, cultural and social construction. Science, education and culture show brand new looks after thirty years of development. More and more students get the chance to go to college and even study abroad. Exhibitions, fashion shows, books, movies, TV series and the Internet enable the Chinese people to get access to advance technologies, embrace the trend of the western culture, to learn from the outside world and to develop their own culture. The success of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games and the Shenzhou VII mission are the great results of the reform and opening up policy, showing the world a brand new China. The development of China's economy boosts the spread of traditional Chinese culture such as Chinese medicine, Chinese Kong Fu and so on. Attracted by the Chinese culture, more and more foreign friends come to China to study and live. Modern Chinese culture becomes a perfect combination of the east and the west.

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Reform & Opening up-Civilian Life

The Reform and Opening up refers to the program of economic reforms called in China that were started in 1978 led by Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, Dèng Xiǎopíng) and are ongoing in the early 21st century. Economic reforms have helped lift millions of people out of poverty, bringing the poverty rate down from 53% of the population in 1981 to 8% by 2001. Living standards for everyone in China have drastically increased and life styles have greatly changed in comparison to the pre-reform era.

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Reform & Opening up-People

The Reform and Opening up refers to the program of economic reforms called "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" in China that were started in 1978 led by Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, Dèng Xiǎopíng) and are ongoing in the early 21st century. In 2008, China is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the policy.People in all walks of life make great contribution to the economic reforms. They play an important role in setting up opening trade with the outside world, reforming the economic stucture, developing the law system and so on.

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Reform & Opening up-The Economy and Construction

The Reform and Opening up refers to the program of economic reforms called "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" in China that were started in 1978 led by Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, Dèng Xiǎopíng) and are ongoing in the early 21st century.The goal of Chinese economic reform was to generate sufficient surplus value to finance the modernization of the mainland Chinese economy, to improve the standard of living and to close the economic gap between China and the industrialized nations. The basic state policy has focused on the formulation and implementation of overall reform and opening to the outside world.The reform has been undertaken through a series of phased reforms which consisted of setting up opening trade with the outside world, instituting the household responsibility system in agriculture, establishing Township and Village Enterprises (TVE's), creating a pricing system and decreasing the role of the state in resource allocations, closing unprofitable enterprises and narrowing the gap between rich and poor in China.Chinese economic reform has been an economic success, generating over two decades of rapid economic growth, reaching most of the goals of the reform. Most cities benefited from the policy and has taken new looks ever since.

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Thirty Years of Reform and Opening up

The Reform and Opening up refers to the program of economic reforms called "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" in China that were started in 1978 led by Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, Dèng Xiǎopíng) and are ongoing in the early 21st century.

The goal of Chinese economic reform was to generate sufficient surplus value to finance the modernization of the mainland Chinese economy, to improve the standard of living and to close the economic gap between China and the industrialized nations. The basic state policy has focused on the formulation and implementation of overall reform and opening to the outside world.

The reform has been undertaken through a series of phased reforms which consisted of setting up opening trade with the outside world, instituting the household responsibility system in agriculture, establishing Township and Village Enterprises (TVE's), creating a pricing system and decreasing the role of the state in resource allocations, closing unprofitable enterprises and narrowing the gap between rich and poor in China.

Chinese economic reform has been an economic success, generating over two decades of rapid economic growth, reaching most of the goals of the reform. Most cities benefited from the policy and has taken new looks ever since.

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