Xinhua Headlines: Past and present: 40 years of change in the lives of the Chinese people

The upper part of this combo photo taken on Oct. 2, 1993 shows two-year-old Liu Yunhan (2nd R, carried by her grandmother) and her family posing for a group photo in Guoyuan Village in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The lower part of the combo photo taken by Jiang Hongjing on Feb. 17, 2018 shows Liu Yunhan (3rd R rear) posing with her family in front of their renovated house. Liu now works as a public servant. (Xinhua)