In the winter of 1978, 18 farmers pressed the red handprint "big contract". Forty years ago, the "big contract" originated in Xiaogang Village became a spring thunder of reform and opening up, breaking through the ideological shackles and awakening the sleeping land

Meng Peisha, the chef of Beijing Airlines Food Company, the French, and Deng Yaoquan, the assistant chef and Hong Kong compatriot, are together (photographed in May 1986). On April 10, 1980, Beijing Aviation Food Co., Ltd., China's first Sino foreign joint venture, was approved to be established.

On August 26, 1980, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress approved the establishment of a special economic zone in Shenzhen. Over the past 40 years, Shenzhen has developed from a fishing village in the border into a world-famous city of financial technology innovation.

The first color TV production line in China was built and put into trial production in the state-owned Tianjin wireless power plant in 1980.

On December 11, 1980, Zhang Huamei, a 19-year-old Wenzhou girl who sold buttons, received the first "business license for individual businesses" from Wenzhou Administration for Industry and Commerce - Gong Shang Zheng Zi No. 10101.

On the New Year's Eve in 1983, when people sat around to enjoy reunion and waited for the New Year, the first Spring Festival Gala officially began.

On November 18, 1984, Shanghai Feile Audio Company was established and issued 10000 shares with a par value of 50 yuan each to the public. This is the first public offering of shares since the founding of New China.

On April 1, 1985, the Patent Law came into force. At 8 am that day, hundreds of people were waiting to apply for patents in front of the acceptance office of the China Patent Office in Beijing. Hu Guohua, an engineer from the 207 Institute of the former Ministry of Aerospace Industry, obtained the first patent application number in China.

On the afternoon of December 1, 1987, the Shenzhen Municipal Government held a public auction of land use rights, knocking down the first hammer of land auction in New China.

On November 12, 1987, KFC, an American fast food company, officially opened its first restaurant in China in the bustling area of Beijing's Qianmen.

On May 10, 1988, with the official approval of the State Council, the first high-tech industry development pilot zone in China - Beijing New Technology Industry Development Pilot Zone was established.

On October 31, 1988, the first expressway in China - Shanghai Jiaxing Expressway was opened to traffic.

The first stock exchange in China, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, was announced on November 26, 1990 and officially opened in mid December. On July 3, 1991, Shenzhen Stock Exchange was also officially listed for business.

This billboard refers to Yinghaiwei, the first Internet access service provider in China. A thousand sails pass by the side of the sinking boat, and generations of Internet enterprises emerging behind it have truly changed China.

On April 7, 1998, Beijing Haixing Kaizhuo Computer Co., Ltd. and Shaanxi Huaxing Import and Export Co., Ltd. conducted the first electronic transaction using the e-commerce system of China Commodity Trading Center. (The picture shows 2017 China International E-commerce Expo)

In the early morning of October 31, 2000, China's first self-developed navigation and positioning satellite, the "Beidou Navigation Test Satellite", was launched at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

On November 10, 2001, the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization deliberated and adopted the decision of China's accession to the World Trade Organization by consensus in Doha, the capital of Qatar.

At 6:23 on October 16, 2003, the Shenzhou V manned spacecraft successfully landed at the main landing site in Inner Mongolia, and the return capsule was intact. Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, became the first Chinese visitor to the vast space.

On December 22, 2007, the first "Harmony" EMU train was completed and rolled off the line. On June 26, 2017, the Chinese standard EMU "Fuxing" made its two-way debut at Beijing South Station and Shanghai Hongqiao Station at both ends of the Beijing Shanghai high-speed railway.

In August 2008, the 29th Olympic Games was held in Beijing. On February 25, 2018, at the closing ceremony of the Pingchang Winter Olympic Games, the 2022 Winter Olympic Games officially entered the "Beijing cycle" with the Olympic flag officially taken over by Beijing, the host city of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

China 2010 Shanghai World Expo will be held from May 1 to October 31. On the evening of April 30, the opening ceremony of the large-scale light fountain fireworks show was held in Shanghai.

China's first aircraft carrier, the "Liaoning Ship", was officially handed over and listed in Dalian, Liaoning at about 10:00 a.m. on September 25, 2012.

On June 24, 2012, China's Jiaolong manned submersible set the latest record for China's manned deep diving in the Mariana Trench test area in the western Pacific Ocean, breaking 7000 meters for the first time and reaching a maximum depth of 7020 meters.

On September 29, 2013, China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially established, which is the first pilot free trade zone established in mainland China.

In 2013, the proportion of added value of China's tertiary industry exceeded that of the secondary industry for the first time, reaching 46.1%. In 2015, the added value of China's tertiary industry accounted for 50.5%, exceeding 50% for the first time.

On November 17, 2014, the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Hong Kong Stock Connect was held at the same time in Shanghai and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges. With the opening of the two markets at the same time, Shanghai Stock Connect and Hong Kong Stock Connect first traded "Hualuo" Yili Shares and Changjiang Industry.

On November 19, 2014, the first World Internet Conference opened in Wuzhen, Zhejiang.

From October 19 to 23, 2015, the National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week was held nationwide, with the main venue set in Zhongguancun, Beijing.

On March 2, 2016, the "National Big Data (Guizhou) Comprehensive Pilot Zone" was officially unveiled, which is the first national big data comprehensive pilot zone in China.

On June 20, 2016, the first "Sunway Taihu Light" independently developed by China and built entirely with domestic processors won the world supercomputing championship and became the fastest supercomputer in the world.

On August 16, 2016, China successfully launched the world's first quantum science experiment satellite "Mozi". The picture shows that on June 15, 2017, the "Mozi" quantum science experiment satellite was in transit, and researchers were doing experiments (composite photo).

From September 4 to 5, 2016, the 11th G20 Summit was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. This is the first time that the G20 Leaders' Summit, which was triggered by the international financial crisis in 2008, came to China.

On October 1, 2016, RMB officially joined SDR, which means that RMB became the "reserve currency" for the first time.

At about 14:00 on May 5, 2017, China's first domestically produced large passenger aircraft of international mainstream standard, C919, made its first flight at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

From May 14 to 15, 2017, the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held in Beijing.

On August 18, 2017, Hangzhou Internet Court, the first Internet court in China, was officially established.

On September 28, 2017, the Management Committee of Hebei Xiong'an New Area said that 48 enterprises had been approved to settle in Hebei Xiong'an New Area. The first 48 enterprises approved to settle down are all high-end and high-tech enterprises.

With a handful of hair, hundreds of identical monkeys will be created - the myth in Journey to the West is becoming a reality. The world's first somatic cloned monkey "Zhongzhong" was born on November 27, 2017.

On December 19, 2017, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport issued the first regulation on road testing of driverless vehicles in China, taking the lead in filling the legislative "gap" in this regard.

On April 14, 2018, the Guiding Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Supporting Hainan to Comprehensively Deepen Reform and Opening up was officially released, supporting the island wide construction of a free trade pilot zone and exploring the construction of a free trade port.