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He was appointed the deputy head of Shanghai Ports Bureau and also became a member of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in 1983. Photo shows Fan and his family ate a cream cake at home in Shanghai in 1985, when one could not often see western desserts in Chinese cities. Photo: Zhang YaozhiXinhua News Agency This luxurious villa belonged to Wu Xieqing, an entrepreneur from the renowned Huaxi village in Jiangsu province. The village, boasting “No.1 Village in China” Uomo Adidas Ultra Boost 4.0 Carbon Marina Scontate , had 80% of its adult labor working in industrial production, with the rest in the field of commerce and agriculture-related third industry. The income of the Huaxi villagers was often higher even than many city-dwellers. Photo: Sun CanXinhua News Agency Middle school teacher Yin Xuelei had an electric-fan and a sewing machine at home in Minhang district, Shanghai. The adult members in the family were all rich enough to wear watches. Photo shows Yin Xuelei enjoyed quality time with her daughter after work in 1980. Photo: Yang PutaoXinhua News Agency Imported TV sets entered Chinese families in the 1980s. Photo shows a family in Beijing gathered around a colored TV set imported from Japan. Photo: Huang JingdaXinhua News Agency Lin Mengfei (R4) used to be a senior official of Kuo Mintang’s garrison headquarters in Xiamen city, Fujian province. He later became the deputy general manager of Construction and Development Company of the Xiamen Special Zone. Photo shows Lin and his family at home in 1980 Uomo Adidas Ultra Boost 4.0 Show Your Stripes Pack Nere Scontate , where a full set of furniture and electrical apparatus were seen in the living room. Photo: Huang XingquanXinhua News Agency The head of the reception office in the government of Yilan county, Heilongjiang province in 1989 enjoyed a home with a TV set and a big recorder, placed on a table with a writing of “Beijing”. 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Photo: Zhu Xianmin FOTOE Private automobiles were extremely rare in the 1980s and early 1990s. Photo shows Ge Hexian, a resident at Huaxi village Adidas Ultra Boost Donne Scontate , drove her own car out in 1994. Photo: Gao MeijiXinhua News Agency Parents with a proper disposable income started to seek artistic education for their children. Photo shows a bettered off peasant’s family in Guangdong province bought a piano for the daughter in 1988. Photo: An Ge FOTOE The daughter of this Shanghai family loved music and football. The walls of her room were covered with footballers’ posters in 1997. Photo: Patrick Zachmann Dun Haoran (R1), 65, was a retired worker in Beijing in 1994. He used to be the head of an amateur orchestra. He went for family musical events with his sons and grandchildren on weekends in Shoupa Hutong, Xicheng district. Photo: Luo GengqianXinhua News Agency "