Remember the first little boy who drank coke at the Great Wall? Fifty years later, how is he now?

Looking back at the 30th anniversary of the founding of New China, when was 1979?

1979, the 30th anniversary of the founding of New China, is also the first year of reform and opening up, and it is a turning point with far-reaching significance in the history of our Party. The people of China have entered a new era of reform, opening up and socialist modernization, so they decided to open their doors and set out to establish diplomatic relations with other countries.

The sleeping oriental lion gradually woke up, which surprised everyone at this moment. After 30 years of hard work, he finally got better. With China's opening to the world, many foreigners have entered China with curiosity about this oriental country.

Tourists on the Great Wall The Great Wall of Wan Li, as a scenic spot, was certainly amazing to foreign tourists who had just set foot on the Great Wall at that time. In ancient China, large-scale military projects were built in different periods to resist the invasion of the nomadic tribal alliance in northern Saibei, stretching tens of thousands of miles from east to west, so it was called the Great Wall of Wan Li.

Among the foreign tourists, there is a photographer named james anderson, who comes from Liusima Photo Agency and follows members to China to record the unique scenery of China on this ancient city wall. These are some memorable photos recorded at a special historical moment.

Among the many photos he took at that time, there was a very special photo of a little boy drinking Coca-Cola through a straw. When facing the camera, the little boy actually has the boldness of vision that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

A photo of Zhang Zhengui at that time, when there was no color camera, only people and things could give life to black-and-white movies. Just like this photo, the boy is holding a bottle of Coca-Cola in his hand, and his youthful attitude towards the camera is really touching. The combination of the Forbidden City in China and foreign goods in the photo has sparked a collision, and people who see this photo will be able to be there.

The word "precious" can reflect its value, because this photo was shown to China and the world through the entrance of American goods 15 years later.

Later, James recalled that after seeing such a spectacular scene with his own eyes, he was eager to record it with his own camera, but it seemed that there was no model, so he fixed the innocence of the child and a bottle of Coca-Cola in his own film, and this precious scene came into being.

The first bottle of coca-cola on the great wall

1948, Coca-Cola was just introduced into the China market from abroad, but it disappeared from the public view only one year later, and it didn't flood into China in the form of western capitalism until twenty years later.

Before that, Coca-Cola was born in the United States for more than 80 years. At the end of 1978, Coca-Cola was allowed to enter the China market, which was also the year when China and the United States established diplomatic relations.

As a new foreign toy, it was sold to foreigners who came to China at that time and could only be bought in the Friendship Store.

The little boy who grew up, his tender face, gradually matured with the passage of time. The little boy in those days is almost fifty years old now, and now his life and career are flourishing. When he recalled the scenes he shot at that time, his face was full of excitement and pride in the past. He said that he didn't expect to be the first person in China to drink Coke.

Times make heroes, so does life. What is common in many people's eyes will be suddenly realized when it is later interpreted.

Looking around, today's China is developing rapidly, just as Premier Zhou said, "Prosperity is as you wish". This photo, called "Red China No.1 Coke", is a collision between China culture and foreign culture, forming a fusion of Chinese and Western cultures, which is of special significance.

This is the result of countless ancestors' lives. New China is hard-won, and it thrives in a desperate situation. As the old saying goes, China, you have to climb to the top quietly, and then bloom to surprise everyone.