The photo shows a group of people trying to get a copy of the document issued after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee. The session, held in Beijing from December 18 to 22, 1978, is a turning point in the history of both the Communist Party of China and the country. The meeting marked China's entry into a new era of socialist modernization and construction. In the following six years, China embarked on major economic structural reforms. [File photo] |