这是20年前发表在世界上最负盛名、也是发行量最大的杂志——美国《国家地理》的一张照片。它记录了中国刚刚对外开放时期那个特殊的年代,发生在中国边远省份一个县城的一件很普通的事:中国老百姓冒雨在夹道欢迎一支来自美国的沙漠考察代表团。然而,当时任何一个中国人都不会想到,这幅照片让世界了解了中国,它向全世界宣布:经过几十年的封闭,中国开始对外开放 This is a photograph of National Geographic in the United States, published 20 years ago in one of the world’s most prestigious and largest circulation magazines. It records a very common occurrence in a particular era of China’s opening-up period to a county in a remote province in China: Chinese people are rambling to welcome a desert delegation from the United States. However, at that time, no one Chinese would ever think that this photo made the world understand China. It announced to the world that after several decades of closure, China began to open to the outside world