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 May 25, 2005 by Jiang Enyu shows 28-year-old farmer Fu Wenjing posing for a photo with his family in front of their thatched roof house in Fanglao Village of Nankai Township in Baisha Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province. The lower part of the combo photo taken by Yang Guanyu on March 8, 2018 shows 41-year-old Fu Wenjing sitting in front of his brick house. (Xinhua)