Chinese railway: fifty years through the lens

In the past 50 years, I have been fortunate to participate, witness and experience the development and great changes of China's railways as a professional photographer. The 1970s and '80s before and after the reform and opening-up was an era of steam and locomotives. With thick white smoke and loud sirens, it was the train that took people to poetry and distance. In the '90s, the ubiquitous employment of electric locomotives increased the train speed from 70 kilometers to 120 kilometers per hour. The clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness.