Xinhua Headlines: Past and present: 40 years of change in the lives of the Chinese people

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The upper part of this combo photo shows Wang Guibao's family used to live in a makeshift dwelling on a fishing boat in the Honghu Lake in central China's Hubei Province. The lower part of the combo photo taken by Xiong Qi in 2018 shows 41-year-old Wang Guibao (R) posing for a photo with his parents in their new apartment in Honghu City. Wang Guibao and his family bought a 113-square-meter apartment with the financial help from the local government. (Xinhua)