"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 "10. Regulating mountains and rivers and building water conservancy projects" (10. 整治山河修水利).

The text reads "Since the founding of the PRC, the Chinese government has attached great importance to the construction of farmland water conservancy, managed the Huai, Yellow, Hai and other rivers that often flooded, reduced flood disasters, and included soil and water conservation in the national basic construction plan.
In order to solve the problems of flood control, irrigation, floods, power generation, etc., my country has built a large number of reservoirs and hydropower stations. In the 1990s, there were 86,000 reservoirs, while there were only 15 in old China; the annual power generation in 1997 was 158 times that of the early 1950s. The Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project, which started in recent years, is the most challenging project in the world. In 1997, the river diversion was successfully completed, laying a good foundation for the smooth progress of the project." (中华人民共和国成立以来，我国政府十分重视农田水利建设，治理了经常泛滥的淮，黄，海等河流，减少了水患灾害，并将水土保持列入了国家基本建设计划。
为解决防洪，灌溉，洪水，发电等问题，我国兴建了大批水库和水电站。90年代已有8.6万座水库，而旧中国只有15座；1997年的年发电量是50年代初的158倍。近年开工的长江三峡水利枢纽工程，是世界上最具有挑战性的工程，1997年已胜利完成了大江截流，为工程的顺利进行打下良好的基础).

Photographs show the Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project; a Yellow River dam in Zhengzhou; Gezhouba (葛洲坝); the 1950 Huai River Project; irrigation in Gansu.