Since the beginning of China's economic reform period, which began in 1979, the nation has embarked on a modernization campaign at an unprecedented rate.

Working with Merrill Lynch, it issued a new $1.2 billion instrument to finance its acquisition and modernization campaign.

A significant percentage of historic Fuyang city was demolished by war in the 1940s and China's modernization campaign that began in the 1980s.

Display windows, painted over during the earlier modernization campaign, were restored with clear glass to showcase merchant's wares.

In 1876 the emperor Meiji banned the wearing of swords in public as part of his modernization campaign.

To enlarge the readership, the NIW started a modernization campaign in 2001, but this had minimal effect on the number of subscribers.

He was scowling for most of the next six years as the Government imposed an economic modernization campaign that he opposed.

In his modernization campaign, he has allowed drinking of alcohol in public and freedom in women's dress.

Medical facilities are to be part of the modernization campaign as well.

Of his modernization campaign, he remarked, "We need European progress only because we are surrounded by it.