New China 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China

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Reflections of the Modern Chinese Lifestyle

Soldiers march through the Xisi Archway in Beijing in February 1949	A boy jumps from a stairway at Caochang Sitiao hutong in Beijing in June 2006	Four British tourists place potted flowers on their heads to call for the construction of more beautiful gardens in 1999
More than 400 poverty-stricken parents enjoy free beds in the school's stadium	Patrons eat while enjoying a performance at the Beijing Kiev Restaurant in 2005	Yangyang, aged 3, kisses a beluga at the Qingdao Ocean Park
One of the many students that sat for the national university entrance examination when it resumed in 1977	Dong ethnic minority girls sing during Spring Festival celebrations in 1957	Hua Tianyou sculpts The May 4th Movement of 1919, a relief on the Monument to People's Heroes
An Israeli woman plays the flute in company with a senior Beijing resident	A young man is shouted as he breakdances in the parking in 1988	Students pose for a photo after attaining their doctorate from Peking University in 2007
Famous painter Ye Qianyu at home in 1979	The 80-year-old Cao Yu, Known as Chinese Shakespeare, reads book at Beijing Hospital in 1991	Guo Moruo shares poetry with villager Wang Laojiu in May 1958