A Glance at Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei on China Pictorial Covers
The cover pictures of China Pictorial magazines recorded many touching moments of people in the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as in Hebei Province, from the 1950s to the 1970s
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Huang Liwei
The cover pictures of China Pictorial magazines recorded many touching moments of people in the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as in Hebei Province.
A Glance at Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei on China Pictorial Covers
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The cover pictures of China Pictorial magazines recorded many touching moments of people in the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as in Hebei Province, from the 1950s to the 1970s, displaying the cultural features and development history of the regions. Let’s take a walk down memory lane into the old days of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
A doctor performs a health check for a boy at a nursery in the Beihai area, Beijing. (Issue 6, 1951, China Pictorial)A streamlined train on the Beijing-Tianjin railway. (Issue 12, 1951, China Pictorial)Liu Changfu, a worker at the Wires Department of a steel factory in Tianjin. (Issue 4, 1952, China Pictorial)The port of Tanggu, Tianjin. (Issue 8, 1952, China Pictorial)A childcare worker holds a girl at a nursery in the Beihai area, Beijing. (Issue 5, 1953, China Pictorial)East Chang’an Avenue in Beijing. (Issue 10, 1953, China Pictorial)Wang Wenbin, director of the Shijingshan Power Plant in Beijing. (Issue 12, 1953, China Pictorial)Two architects in Beijing. (Issue 1, 1954, China Pictorial)Shi Xueliang, a water pilot and ‘model worker’ of Tianjin. (Issue 4, 1954, China Pictorial)A threshing ground of the Zhangyupu agricultural cooperative in Hebei Province. (Issue 11, 1954, China Pictorial)Li Shuhua, a worker at a rubber plant in Tianjin, with her triplets. (Issue 1, 1955, China Pictorial)Li Qinglu, an old artisan of cloisonné enamel, trains an apprentice in Beijing. (Issue 10, 1957, China Pictorial)
The building of the Beijing Broadcast Station. (Issue 7, 1959, China Pictorial)
The newly-built Beijing Railway Station. (Issue 24, 1959, China Pictorial)
Beijing residents celebrate the Spring Festival in the Changdian area. (Issue 4, 1960, China Pictorial)Students at a teenagers’ sports school in Beijing. (Issue 12, 1960, China Pictorial)Xing Yanzi, head of ‘Swallow’ production team in Baodi County, Tianjin. (Issue 20, 1960, China Pictorial)Peking opera artist Mei Lanfang plays Yang Yuhuan, a consort of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty (618-907), in TheDrunkenBeauty. (Issue 10, 1961, China Pictorial)Cheng Yongfen, a textile worker at a cotton mill in Beijing. (Issue 5, 1965, China Pictorial)A worker handles a converter at the Capital Iron and Steel Company in Beijing. (Issue 4, 1972, China Pictorial)A worker at a vinylon factory in Beijing. (Issue 4, 1973, China Pictorial)Wu Xuzhi, an old miner at Kailuan coal mine who earned the title of “Excellent Party Member”, in Hebei Province. (Issue 9, 1973, China Pictorial)The “educated youth” in a village of Baodi County, Tianjin. (Issue 9, 1974, China Pictorial)
Xing Yanzi and Hou Juan, both educated young women, in a crop field. (Issue 9, 1976, China Pictorial)
