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

The upper part of this combo photo taken on Nov. 5, 2008 shows a wedding banquet of people of Miao ethnic group in Nabu Village of Napo County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. At that time, the wedding banquet was quite simple. The lower part of the combo photo taken on March 6, 2018 shows a wedding banquet of Wu Wenrong (4th R) in Jialiu Village of Napo County. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)