Xinhua Headlines: Past and present: 40 years of change in the lives of the Chinese people

The upper part of this combo photo taken in 1985 shows six-year-old Zhou Peng practicing martial arts in a college campus where his home was located, in east China's Shandong Province. The lower part of the combo photo taken by Yin Gang on Nov. 29, 2018 shows 39-year-old Zhou Peng posing for a photo with basketballs in his apartment in Beijing. Zhou, now a teacher of People's Public Security University of China, said his biggest childhood dream was to drive a car and live in a tall building. Many "luxury goods" in the past have become daily supplies, said Zhou. (Xinhua)