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Deng Xiaoping was Mao Zedong's successor and became the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until 1989. Deng led China through far-reaching market-economy reforms.

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Deng Xiaoping - The Giant Leap Forward
Deng Xiaoping was Mao Zedong's successor and became the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until 1989. Deng led China through far-reaching market-economy reforms.

After Chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng led China through far-reaching market-economy reforms.

Born into a peasant background in Guang'an, Sichuan province in 1904, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he became a follower of Marxism–Leninism.

He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923.

Upon his return to China he joined the party organization in Shanghai, then was a political commissar for the Red Army in rural regions and by the late 1930s was considered a "revolutionary veteran" because he participated in the Long March.

Following the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and the southwest region to consolidate Communist control.

As the party's Secretary General in the 1950s, Deng presided over anti-rightist campaigns and became instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following 'The Great Leap Forward' of 1957–1960.

However, his economic policies caused him to fall out of favor with Mao, and he was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution.

Following Mao's death in 1976, Deng out-manoeuvred the late chairman's chosen successor Hua Guofeng in December 1978.

Inheriting a country beset with social conflict, disenchantment with the Communist Party and institutional disorder resulting from the chaotic policies of the Mao era, Deng became the paramount figure of the "second generation" of party leadership.

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary (leader of the Communist Party), some called him 'The architect of a new brand of thinking' that combined socialist ideology with pragmatic market economy whose slogan was 'Socialism with Chinese characteristics'.

Deng opened China to foreign investment and the global market, policies that are credited with developing China into one of the fastest-growing economies in the world for several generations and raising the standard of living of hundreds of millions.

He was the Time Person of the Year in 1978 and 1985, the third Chinese leader (after Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling) and the fourth communist leader (after Joseph Stalin, picked twice, and Nikita Khrushchev) to be selected.

Deng was criticized for ordering the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but praised for his reaffirmation of the reform program in his Southern Tour of 1992 and the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997.

Deng Xiaoping died in February 1997, aged 92.


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