Deng Xiaoping

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Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and paramount leader who, after Mao Zedong, steered China toward market-oriented economic reforms while maintaining Communist Party control.

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instanceOf Chinese politician
Chinese revolutionary
human
paramount leader of China
birthName Deng Xiansheng
causeOfDeath Parkinson’s disease
child Deng Nan
Deng Pufang
Deng Rong
countryOfCitizenship China
dateOfBirth 1904-08-22
dateOfDeath 1997-02-19
deFactoLeaderOf People’s Republic of China
education studied in France
studied in the Soviet Union
endTime early 1990s (as de facto paramount leader)
ethnicGroup Han Chinese
familyName Deng
gender male
givenName Xiaoping
ideology communism
market socialism
socialism with Chinese characteristics
influenced Chinese economic reform
post-Mao Chinese politics
influencedBy Mao Zedong
Marxism–Leninism
knownFor Deng Xiaoping Theory
One Country, Two Systems policy
initiating Chinese economic reform
opening China to foreign investment
reform and opening-up policy
memberOf Communist Party of China Central Committee
militaryRank political commissar
name Deng Xiaoping
nativeName 邓小平
notableEvent Southern Tour of 1992
officeHeld Chairman of the Central Military Commission
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
Paramount leader of China
Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China
Vice Premier of the State Council of China
participatedIn Chinese Civil War
Cultural Revolution (as a purged and later rehabilitated leader)
Long March
Second Sino-Japanese War
placeOfBirth Guang’an, Sichuan, China
placeOfDeath Beijing, China
policy Four Modernizations
One Country, Two Systems for Hong Kong and Macau
establishment of Special Economic Zones
household responsibility system in agriculture
politicalParty Communist Party of China
predecessor Mao Zedong (as paramount leader)
quote “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.”
“Let some people get rich first.”
religion atheism
residence Beijing, China
restingPlace Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery (ashes scattered at sea)
roleIn oversaw normalization of relations with the United States
oversaw return negotiations of Hong Kong to China
oversaw return negotiations of Macau to China
spouse Jin Weiying
Zhang Xiyuan
Zhuo Lin
startTime 1978 (as de facto paramount leader)
successor Jiang Zemin (as paramount leader)


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