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 Sept. 20, 1990 shows 26-year-old Chen Yufang posing with a TV set at her home in Xigu District in Lanzhou City, northwest China's Gansu Province. At that time, Chen's family lived in a 30-square-meter apartment with only a nine-inch monochromatic TV. The lower part of the combo photo taken by Chen Bin on Nov. 13, 2018 shows 54-year-old Chen posing with her new TV set at home in Lanzhou. Chen, who is a retired worker of a yarn factory, lives in an 80-square-meter apartment and has a 42-inch LCD TV. (Xinhua)