Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping (, also UK: ; Chinese: 邓小平; pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng; Wade–Giles: Teng Hsiao-ping; born Xiansheng (先圣); courtesy name Xixian (希贤); 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader 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 China through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms, earning him the reputation as the "Architect of Modern China".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. In early 1926, Deng travelled to Moscow to study Communist doctrines and became a political commissar for the Red Army upon returning to China. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deng Xiaoping has received more than 5,076,187 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.