A well-documented process
By Xu Fan | China Daily | Updated: 2019-02-18 16:58
A six-episode TV series looks at 40-years of reform and opening up through the stories of those that felt - and are still feeling - the changes it brought the most, Xu Fan reports.
When Thai business-man Dhanin Chearavanont visited Shenzhen in 1979, the present-day megacity was merely a poor village with a population of around 12,000.
However, the tycoon - from a Chinese immigrant family in Bangkok - believed then, that China would rise to become a huge economy.
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