Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping (, also UK: ; simplified Chinese: 邓小平; traditional Chinese: 鄧小平; pinyin: dèng xiǎo píng; born Xiansheng (“先圣”); courtesy name Xixian (“希贤”); Wade–Giles: Teng Hsiao-ping; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the dominant policymaker of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng gradually rose to supreme power and led his country through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms, thereby resulting in his characterization as the "Architect of Modern China". Despite never holding office as either the PRC’s head of state/government or as head of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he is generally viewed as the “core leader” of the CCP’s second generation leadership, a status enshrined within the party's constitution.Born into an educated land-owning family in Sichuan province in the Qing dynasty, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he became a follower of Marxism–Leninism and lifelong friends with Zhou Enlai as well as many other future CCP leaders. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deng Xiaoping has received more than 4,778,097 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Deng Xiaoping is the 136th most popular politician (down from 132nd in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from China (down from 10th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Chinese Politician.

Deng Xiaoping is most famous for implementing the "open door" policy, which allowed China to trade with the rest of the world.