Deng Xiaoping: architect of modern China

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It has been 120 years since the birth of the late Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping on August 22. Deng, who died in 1997 at the age of 92, has been credited with pioneering China’s economic growth, setting the path of transforming the country into the world’s second-largest economy.

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[wc]

I visited Shenzhen back in March, Lianhuashan Park had a statue of him, and I knew why… Shenzhen today is one of the most modern cosmopolitan cities not just in China but in the world…

[sidneylu]

It is because of this man that China today is not like North Korea

[mohammadyeakubali]

National hero of China. Respect from Bangladesh

[backpackpepelon]

This man is a savior. He lay the foundation for China to be from a poor broken nations to a world manufacturing superpower.

[RKKY-mffe]

He’s the most important Chinese leader in hundreds of years.

[arshad]

I wish he could see shenzhen now. From a tiny fishing village to the biggest tech city in the world

[RespectOthers]

Kinda sad he didn’t get to see the handover of Hong Kong back to China and the economic seeds he sowed turning China into the champion manufacturer and exporter of the world.

[godzillamothra]

Deng Xiaoping and Lee Kuan Yew were probably the greatest nation builders of 20th century, both were extremely wise and decisive people too.

[davidsanchezplaza]

honestly, dengxiaoping is the architect, and probably the best chairman china ever had.
he opened to the world, improved the country.
also, crazy to know that this guy studied in France / russia in the 1920s

[Lee.Hsien-Yung]

China's current rise as a superpower cannot be separated from the legacy of the economic reforms of the late Deng Xiaoping, the former supreme leader of China.

[keith]

The rise of china today was not foreseen, even by Deng. it would come as a complete surprise to Deng, and he would be amazed at the result. My grandfather was a capitalist before 1949, and he owned one of the largest chinese machinery companies. my grandfather suffered heavily during culture revolution. in the 80s Deng asked my grandfather to be a part of a task force to negotiate china’s opening up to the world. my grandfather asked Deng to allow my mother and my grandmother to leave china because my grandfather thought the opening up would create such chaos in china surely he would be facing a firing squad afterwards! deng told my grandfather he would stand next to my grandfather and face the firing squad together if things go south😂. the rest is history as they say. sadly, my grandfather past away in the 90s, overworked trying to get china into WTO., and my grandmother never returned to china after she left in the 80s. i wonder what grandpa would say to Deng if he saw china today

[syue]

When Deng came to power, he de facto changed CCP‘s ideology from classic marxism-leninism to what we call today as state-capitalism. Mao rigidly exercised class struggle, especially during the cultural revolution period. It emphasized that only the proletariat can be creative, which was not true. Deng understands the problem crystal clear, he knew that the only way to keep CCP regime legit was to develop economy. Like the title said, Deng is the architect of modern China and he picked an excellent successor, Jiang Zemin. He painted the big picture, but Jiang was the one actually made all the changes happen.

[rdpowel]

Deng learn from Singapore. Singapore told him to start small and later it will grow bigger.

[PainStation-psycho]

As a HongKonger, I want to thank this man for his effort. May he rest in peace.

[PhilemonChan]

A great Chinese leader of modern China with vision and pragmatism. If not for him, China will not be where it is today.

[richardtorres]

Incredible leader. Truly knew the goal, if all leaders around the world took his mindset, we would be colonizing the stars

[picanha]

i respect deng xiao ping way more than mao.
thanks to mao my grandfather migrated to indonesia.

[rdlulu]

Deng turned a sorry country to a real superpower. What an amazing leader

[lvjinbin]

Too simple sometimes naive, Does the China success only depends on Deng Xiaoping opening the door? Did ASEAN, India, Africa or Latin America closed doors to the West?

Can we stop explaining China from a foreign perspective? Chinese said "The 30-year historical period after reform and opening-up cannot be used to deny the 30-year historical period before it, " so why only Deng Xiaoping is the architect? modern China is only just from 1978??

Modern China is from 1912–Present, so Sun Yat-sen is the first architect of modern China, It was he who overthrew the Manchu feudal monarchy and established the Republic!

Mao Zedong to 1976 is also the most important architect of modern and new China. Foreigners should not slice up Chinese history at will, like Modern America is from 1890-Present, not just after the Cold War, two Roosevelt and Kennedy also belong to the modern history of the United States!

Chinese people often say:

Mao Zedong made Chinese stand up,
Deng Xiaoping made Chinese get rich,
Xi Jinping makes Chinese great again,

Foreigners often ignore Mao Zedong's contribution but only remember Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution in his later years.
But don't forget that Deng Xiaoping's evaluation of Mao Zedong was 30% wrong, 70% correct!

Without Mao Zedong, China cannot be unified then PRC will be another ROC. Illiteracy cannot be eliminated, women cannot be liberated, and religion will still suppress Chinese people's mind, landowners will still block infrastructure construction, then China's social structure is another India!

Without Mao Zedong’s resistance to the United States and the Soviet Union and their proxies in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Sino-Indian War, the Sino-Soviet War, the PRC would not be an independent country, Chinese will be still encircled and contained by both the West and Russia militarily economically, Deng Xiaoping also fought back Soviet's containment in Third Indochina War, the Soviet-Afghan War, if there's no military rise then PRC might be a communist colony of the Soviet Union like Eastern Europe or Mongolia, or a liberal satellite state of the United States like Europe Union or Japan, I would like to ask if American or Russian troops still stay in PRC today, Could Deng Xiaoping still control important national assets instead of selling them to Wall Street? Could Xi Jinping to counter the trade war, technology war, financial war, even media war from the West??

Even the Great Leap Forward had a positive effect, because it was an example of Mao Zedong rejecting Soviet control and choosing technological independence. Radical industrialization caused severe famine for sure, but at the same time Radical industrialization also left a strong heavy industry foundation, without dams and power plants built by Mao Zedong era, how did Deng Xiaoping take over the light industry transfer from the West?? Isn’t Vietnam always short of electricity today becasue they don't have heavy industry foundation?

Remember, if China got rich it was only because Deng Xiaoping embraced free trade, market economy, so why India, ASEAN, African Union, even Latin America, they have never implemented a communist planned economy, they have always welcomed Western investment, their doors have always been open to the West, China was sanctioned by the West and the Soviet Union simultaneously from 1959 to 1979. But why can China surpass them just by opening the door? Then you have to think about what China did before opening the door!


too simple sometimes naive

[simonbrown]

The true architects were the people and the workforce.