A photo of a Chinese boy holding a Coca-Cola can on the Great Wall, taken in March 1979 by American photographer James Anderson, became a symbol of China's reform and opening era and was chosen as a National Geographic cover. The boy, Hắc Kiến Đào, later studied civil engineering at Southeast University and became a business executive, including CEO of the Beijing branch of Grenada Shanghai Trade Center. He did not know about the photo for 40 years, until March 2019, when an embassy contacted him at Coca-Cola's request and the company confirmed he was the boy in the picture. Since 2016 he has also been a golf commentator for CCTV, and he recalls that his first Coca-Cola tasted unpleasant. He now hopes to find the 1979 National Geographic issue to keep for his family.
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Original headline: Tình hình hiện tại của "cậu bé Trung Quốc đầu tiên uống Coca-Cola"
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