What was China like in 1978?
Bao'an, only a river away from Hong Kong Island, has a large number of people fleeing to the other side every year.
Most of them failed. The successful part built a Luofang village on the other side of the river, and there is also a Luofang village on the mainland.
The average annual per capita income of those who escaped in the first year was 18000 Hong Kong dollars.
The average annual income of Luofang Village on the mainland is 134 yuan.
The people in the city are clean and tidy, but in the countryside, people seldom see a farmer wearing no patched clothes.
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