China 70 "Country of blue ants" (18 photos) Bashny.Net

Those who have been in recent years in the major cities of China, could not help but marvel at the scale and pace of economic growth, clearly expressed in the growing like mushrooms all over the skyscrapers, wide highways filled with cars of local production (albeit on a foreign license). More Beijing in 1995 was a city bike, and in 2004 they were already there lonely lost in the dense avtopotoke. In Shanghai bicycles on the streets and banned altogether. Of all the abundance in the shops I did not speak.

Now we already can not imagine that was a China in the 1970s, after t. N. "Cultural Revolution" and before the beginning of Deng Xiaoping's reforms. I propose to make a short trip to the "Land of blue ants," as it was called then, Western journalists.

1. On the main street of Beijing 1972


2. A typical Beijing traffic 70s.


3. Beijing prepares to meet Nixon, 1972


4. The guard of honor on the occasion of the arrival of the American president, 1972


5. Beijingers 1972


6. The city could, as stoked with wood.


7. The main symbol of the city, 1972


8. Subsistence farming in 5 minutes. walk from Tiananmen Square, 1972


9. Typical old quarters of Beijing - "Hooton" today preserved in the city center for the history of


10. PLA 1972


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12. Beijing option pram 1972.


13. A sample of Chinese fashion early 70


14. Looking to the future, 1972


15. Nixon showed the Chinese National Theatre


16. From the same opera early 70s


17. Beijing street from the window of the hotel, 1978


18. In 2004, in Beijing, I have not found the trams, but in the 70s they went


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