Chinese Father Documents Life With Son Every Year of His Life for 3 Decades

2003

By 2003, Li was just another 17-year-old in a world whose population reached 6.31 billion people. This is the same year that North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the U.S. and Britain launched a war against Iraq. Later that same year, the U.S. would declare an official end to combat operations in Iraq and they would also capture Saddam Hussein. The Bachu earthquake measured 6.3 in magnitude and killed at least 261 people, and injured 4,000 more. Nearly 10,000 homes were leveled by the earthquake. Those weren’t the only major events happening in China at the time.