Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng gradually rose to supreme power and led China through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms earning him the reputation as the "Architect of Modern China". He contributed to China becoming the world's second-largest economy by nominal GDP in 2010.Born in the province of Sichuan in the Qing dynasty, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he became a follower of Marxism–Leninism and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1924. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deng Xiaoping has received more than 7,082,784 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Deng Xiaoping is the 135th most popular politician (up from 136th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from China (up from 11th 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.