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

The upper part of this combo photo taken in 1988 shows five-year-old Yan Wenli posing for a photo in front of her family's old house in Kouhezi Town, Kulun Banner of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The lower part of the combo photo taken by Liu Lei in 2018 shows 35-year-old Yan Wenli airing clothes at home. Yan and her family are running a hotel, which is also their present home. (Xinhua)