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

2011

In 2011, Li turns 25, while his father, Jun, turns 52. This same year China would experience another series of environmental disasters, as they began efforts to combat an on-going drought in the north, while the central and southern parts of China experiences a series of floods. These protests wouldn’t stop in 2011, and would only increase intensity over the coming year, often becoming violent riots due to a militarized police presence. China also launched the unmanned flight of Shenzhou 8 on October 31. China docked the spacecraft, and only Russia, Japan, and the European Space Agency had achieved an automatic rendezvous docking before China.