Thing: Drinking Milk and Ad

thing: It was the 1990s, and I first saw it in an advert on TV. The ad said explicitly that drinking milk would save the nation, according to The Guardian. It would make China stronger and better able to survive competition from other nations. It was an image of it, not the real thing. Like most ethnic Han, who make up about 95% of the population, Jian was congenitally lactose-intolerant, meaning milk was hard to digest. Throughout the Mao era, milk was in short supply and rationed to those deemed to have a special need infants and the elderly, athletes and party cadres above a certain grade. His parents did not consume dairy at all when they were growing up; China's economy was closed to the global market and its own production very limited. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.