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 Ouyang Yunqian (1st L) posing for a group photo at home with her mother, father and sister in Luohu District of Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. She moved to Shenzhen with her mother to reunite with her father in 1988. They lived in an apartment provided by the father's work unit. The lower part of the combo photo taken by Mao Siqian on Dec. 1, 2018 shows a new family photo of Ouyang Yunqian in Shenzhen. Ouyang and her husband bought their own apartment of some 100 square meters in Futian District of Shenzhen in 2005. (Xinhua)