• Meet founding father of world's largest small commodities market

    In turning Yiwu from an impoverished county to an international trade hub, former Party chief of Yiwu county Xie Gaohua played a pivotal role.

  • CP Group: Bringing the best to China

    As the first foreign company registered in China after the country began its reform and opening up, CP Group sets a shining example of how overseas businesses are able to stay and thrive.

  • Journey to the East: An American scholar's 4 decades in China

    Professor Donald Stone goes down the memory lane recounting China's transformation and those of his own.

  • Xiaogang: A tale of China's rural reform

    Starting from the epoch-making household contract responsibility system, Xiaogang village has witnessed the four decades of China's rural reform and development.

  • EU ambassador on China's reforms

    Hans Dietmar Schweisgut speaks about China unleashing its entrepreneurial spirit and transforming its economy over four decades on the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up.

  • Yiwu youth: Making shoes by hand 'like raising a child'

    As one of the new generation of traders in the world's largest small commodities market, Ye Peng has inherited the enterprising and hardworking spirit of Yiwu that has made the city what it is today.

  • Honeywell executive recounts China's reform and opening up

    Shane Tedjarati, president of global high growth regions at Honeywell, tells the stories of China's economic transformations during his 25 years in the country and the multiple roles China plays on the world stage today.

  • College couple finds life's work in rural China

    Zhang Yu and husband Wang Tao were among the first to become village officials right out of university in Beijing. They discovered their life's mission in China's profound rural transformations.