"Deng Xiaoping – the one that changed China's Superpower"
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China's Reform
Deng rose back in power after Mao's death on September 9, 1976. He became China's Vice-Chairman while Hua Guofeng became the Chairman. However, Deng's policies gained respect within the Party and he successfully ousted Hua.
"Hua Guofeng soon faced another powerful rival: the tough, resilent Deng Xiaoping. . . . Deng Xiaoping ousted Hua Guofeng . . . Although he was still the Vice-Chairman, his voice became the party's voice, and his policies were accepted by the whole party. Deng Xiaoping was now the most powerful man in China."
-Will Lyman, China: A Century of Revolution: Part III
Deng was the paramount leader of China from 1978 to 1997. His ruling brought economic success to China, with his plan for economic reform throughout the entire nation.
"The reforms began with the 'household contract' and 'responsibility system,' developed and launched quietly in 1978 . . . 18 farmers signed a secret agreement to divide communally owned farmland into individual sections called 'household contracts.' . . . this should have been . . . a hefty 'counter-revolutionary crime.' But the experiment won the support of Deng and was quickly implemented across the nation, becoming the first major breakthrough in economic reform . . . In the late 1970s, Chinese farmers and rural cadres were frustrated with the commune system, seeing it as an obstacle to improving agricultural production and their lives. Thus . . . privatization experiment quickly won popular support . . ."
            
-Jeffery Hays, Deng Xiaoping's Economic Reforms
"Deng famously said, 'I don't care if it's a black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches mice it's a good cat.' . . . If a mixture of communist state planning and capitalist economics were going to bring wealth and power to China, he was willing to leave behind his ideological prejudices of utopian communism and instead engage in a mixed plan for the Chinese economy. He called this 'socialism with Chinese characteristics' and . . . China's politicians and planners were willing to improvise a lot . . . This . . . governmental economic flexibility combined to bring China into the state of wealth and power that it enjoys increasingly today."
-Jeremy A. Murray, History Department, CSU San Bernardino
Deng and Mao wanted the best for China; however, Mao isolated China from the world. On the contrary, Deng opened China's doors to foreign business, leading to an economic boom.
"China has the fastest growing economy in the world for many years now, an astounding fact when you consider how large the country is. It has managed to maintain a 10 percent growth rate through the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s and did not suffer to [sic] much from the Asian Economic Crisis in the late 1990s and a global slump in the early 2000s."
-Jeffery Hays, Deng Xiaoping's Economic Reforms
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"China: A Century of Revolution" Part III
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"They [China] launched a bold new plan of economic development, designed to attract foreign technology and foreign money." |
"Deng Xiaoping authorized four special economic zones in the south, carefully placed near the booming economies of Hong Kong and Taiwan." |
"And fourteen more cities were designated free-wheeling special economic zones." |