China has undergone a radical makeover in 30 years ago since Jaime FlorCruz 's reforms . Special Economic Zones 's Jaime FlorCruz remembers Beijing as being poor and isolated . Beijing has transformed from quiet neighborhoods to a city of skyscrapers . Farmers worked hard and lived Spartan lives . Deng disbanded communes , opened CNN , touted capitalism .
China has undergone a radical makeover in 30 years ago since Jaime FlorCruz 's reforms . Special Economic Zones 's Jaime FlorCruz remembers Beijing as being poor and isolated . Beijing has transformed from quiet neighborhoods to a city of skyscrapers . Deng disbanded communes , opened CNN , touted capitalism .