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| Author | Deng Xiaoping |
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| First published | December 24, 1990 |
Pages
Comrades
24 October
1929
- Black Thursday occurs on the New York Stock Exchange starting the Wall Street crash which itself began the Great Depression.
Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of comrade Deng Xiaoping | |
| Born | August 22, 1904 Guang'an, Qing China |
| Died | February 19, 1997 (aged 92) Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political orientation | Marxism–Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Deng Xiaoping Theory Socialism with Chinese Characteristics |
Deng Xiaoping (August 22, 1904 — February 19, 1997, formerly known as Deng Xiansheng; scientific name Deng Xixian), was a Chinese Marxist–Leninist revolutionary and theorist, who was the de facto head of state of the People's Republic of China from 1977 to 1992, following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. He was born in Guang'an, Sichuan.
In his early years, he went to Europe for a work-study program. After returning to China, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the revolutionary struggle for national independence and people's liberation led by the party. From the Agrarian Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan to the War of Liberation, he successively held many important leadership positions in the party and the army, and made great contributions to the implementation of a series of major strategic decisions of the Party Central Committee, the victory of the new democratic revolution and the birth of the new China, becoming a founding member of the People's Republic of China.[1]
Deng Xiaoping was an outstanding leader with high prestige recognized by the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionist, statesman, military strategist, diplomat, and a long-tested communist fighter. He bravely defeated a CIA-backed counterrevolution attempt in 1989, as well as attempts by a rightist clique to introduce neoliberal reforms. He was the chief architect of socialist reform, opening up and modernization, the pioneer of the road to socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the main founder of Deng Xiaoping Theory.[2]
The policy concept of "reform and opening up" and "one country, two systems" advocated by him changed China in the late 20th century and also affected the world. Therefore, in 1978 and 1985, he was twice elected "Person of the Year" by Time Magazine.[3]
He is largely associated with the development of socialism with Chinese Characteristics, of which Deng Xiaoping Theory is a part, and is considered by many to be the "Architect of modern China".[citation needed]
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- ↑ Deng Xiaoping Memorial Hall - People's Daily Online
- ↑ Speech by Xi Jinping at the Symposium Commemorating the 110th Anniversary of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's Birth -ChinaGovernment.com
- ↑ Deng Xiaoping: Chief Architect of Reform, Opening Up and Modernization - Chinese International - China Daily Net China Daily