Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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▲ Liu Guixian, owner of Yuebin Restaurant, the first private restaurant in Beijing

In fact, Liu Guixian herself also wants to find someone to ask these questions clearly. On the 30th day of the second year of the Chinese New Year, two prominent figures came to Yuebin Restaurant. Vice Premiers Chen Muhua and Yao Yilin personally came to pay their New Year's greetings to her. From this point on, a new identity term began to become popular in the city: individual proprietorship, which refers to people like Liu Guixian who have no national protection and independently founded small shops. It sounds like a mixture of contempt, sympathy, and a small admiration for "freedom".

As the first individual restaurant in Beijing, Liu Guixian's career has never ventured beyond Cuihua Hutong. 30 years later, people can still find that small restaurant in that narrow and aging alley that can only hold seven or eight Eight Immortals tables.



In 1980, China was still a bit far away from the world.

On April 14th, The Guardian published a news photo from China, which was a showcase of a photography studio in Shanghai with a suit hanging inside; There is a sign posted that reads: 'Suits for rent here'. This photo seems to reveal a clever metaphor. Another news photo published by Newsweek has a different meaning, showing a Western female tourist visiting the Forbidden City, while the corridor is filled with Chinese tourists visiting her. This is truly a curiosity that is unfamiliar to each other.