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 1980 shows seven-year-old Huang Shenghui (L) posing for a photo with his younger brother Huang Shengliang at Tianxin Village of Wuyishan City, southeast China's Fujian Province. They lived in an old shabby house. The lower part of the combo photo taken by Zhang Guojun on Nov. 30, 2018 shows 45-year-old Huang Shenghui (L) posing for a photo with his younger brother Huang Shengliang in the yard of his house at Tianxin Village of Wuyishan City. Born in a poor rural tea farm family, Huang inherited traditional tea-making techniques. Now he helps his family get rid of poverty with tea production. (Xinhua)