"Fifty Glorious Years 1949-1999" (光辉的五十年1949-1999), designed by the Museum of the Chinese Revolution (中国革命博物馆) and published by the Zhongguo funü chubanshe (中国妇女出版社) and the Zhongguo dabaike quanshu chubanshe (中国大百科全书出版社) in 1999, is a series of 20 posters devoted to the period 1949-1999.
The developments that occurred after the adoption of Deng Xiaoping's strategy of Reform and Opening Up (改革开放) in 1978 receive more attention than the events preceding 1978. In that sense, the series celebrates the successes of Deng's actions. Jiang Zemin, Deng's successor, takes the credit for these successes as well.
The title reads "4. Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and sideline production are all prospering" (4. 农林牧副齐繁荣).
The text reads "Over the past 50 years since the founding of the PRC, the Party and the government have always attached great importance to agricultural development. The output of agricultural products has increased significantly compared with that before 1949, basically meeting the people's living needs. Especially after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, the household contract responsibility system was fully implemented in rural areas, which greatly mobilized the production enthusiasm of the vast number of farmers, and crops continued to grow significantly. Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline production and fishery developed comprehensively. The material and cultural living standards in rural areas have improved rapidly.
In 1997, our country's grain, cotton, rapeseed and meat production ranked first in the world. China feeds 22% of the world's population with 7% of the world's land, which is a miracle." (中华人民共和国成立50年来，党和政府一贯重视农业发展，农产品产量比1949年以前有大幅度的增长，基本上满足了人民的生活需要。特别是党的十一届三中全会以后，农村全面推行家庭联产承包责任制，极大地调动了广大农民的生产积极性，农作物连续获得大幅度增长，农林牧副渔全面发展。农村的物质和文化生活水平迅速提高。
1997年，我国的谷物，棉花，油菜料肉类产量均居世界首位。中国以世界7%的土地养活了世界上22%的人口，这是一个奇迹).
Photographs show activities in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, sideline occuptions and contracted household work in Shandong, Henan, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, and Liaoning.
