Passage 1
A clearly confident 【China has rolled up a large section of its bamboo curtain】, declared itself "open to the outside world" and hung signs on nearly all its cities inviting foreign investors to come and do serious business.
For foreign investors, the prospect of 【having access to】 a market of 1. 3 billion consumers no longer seems like a pipedream. The Chinese-in particular the rural population——are getting richer and now want visible improvements to their standard of living: they aspire to own colour TV sets, refrigerators, trucks, washing machines and 【better】 radios, bicycles and clothing. Even local factories are taking note of the vast potential 【sales】 in their own domestic market.
36.Please paraphrase"has rolled up a large section of its bamboo curtain"in Line 1.
It can be paraphrased as: has opened its long-closed door to the outside world in many parts of the country.
