# Deng Xiaoping

| Deng Xiaoping |
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| 邓小平 |
| Deng Xiaoping in 1979 |
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| Chairman o the Central Advisory Commission o the Communist Pairty |
| **In office** 13 September 1982 – 2 November 1987 |
| Depute | Bo Yibo Xu Shiyou Tan Zhenlin Li Weihan |
| General Secretary | Hu Yaobang Zhao Ziyang |
| Precedit bi | New office |
| Succeedit bi | Chen Yun |
| Chairman o the CPC Central Militar Commission |
| **In office** 28 Juin 1981 – 9 November 1989 |
| Depute | Ye Jianying Zhao Ziyang Yang Shangkun |
| Precedit bi | Hua Guofeng |
| Succeedit bi | Jiang Zemin |
| Chairman o the CPPCC National Committee |
| **In office** 8 Mairch 1978 – 17 Juin 1983 |
| Precedit bi | Zhou Enlai vacant (1976–1978) |
| Succeedit bi | Deng Yingchao |
| Member o the Naitional Fowkcongress |
| **In office** 18 Aprile 1959 – 21 Dizember 1964 26 Februar 1978 – 19 Februar 1997 |
| Constituency | Beijing At-lairge (59–64,78–83) FLA At-lairge (83–97) |
| First Vice Premier o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae |
| **In office** 17 Januar 1975 – 7 Aprile 1976 21 Julie 1977 – 10 September 1980 |
| Premier | Zhou Enlai Hua Guofeng |
| Precedit bi | Lin Biao |
| Succeedit bi | Wan Li |
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| Personal details |
| Born | 22 August 1904(1904-08-22) Guang'an, Sichuan |
| Dee'd | 19 Februar 1997(1997-02-19) (aged 92) Beijing |
| Naitionality | Cheenese |
| Poleetical pairty | Communist Pairty o Cheenae |
| Spoose(s) | Zhang Xiyuan (张锡瑗) (1928–1929) Jin Weiying (金维映) (1931–1939) Zhuo Lin (卓琳) (1939–1997) |
| Bairns | Deng Lin Deng Pufang Deng Nan Deng Rong Deng Zhifang |

| Deng Xiaoping |
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| Semplifeed Cheenese | 邓小平 |
| Tradeetional Cheenese | 鄧小平 |
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| Transcriptions |
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| Staundart Mandarin |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dèng Xiǎopíng |
| Wade–Giles | Teng Hsiao-p'ing |

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| Deng Xiansheng |
| Semplifeed Cheenese | 邓先圣 |
| Tradeetional Cheenese | 鄧先聖 |
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| Transcriptions |
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| Staundart Mandarin |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dèng Xiānshèng |
| Wade–Giles | Teng Hsien-sheng |

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| Deng Xixian |
| Semplifeed Cheenese | 邓希贤 |
| Tradeetional Cheenese | 鄧希賢 |
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| Staundart Mandarin |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dèng Xīxián |
| Wade–Giles | Teng Hsi-hsien |

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**Deng Xiaoping** (22 August 1904 – 19 Februar 1997) wis a Cheenese politeecian, statesman, theorist, an diplomat. As leader o the Communist Pairty o Cheenae, Deng wis a reformer who led Cheenae towards a market economy. While Deng niver held office as the heid o state, heid o government or General Secretary o the Communist Pairty o Cheenae (historically the hiechest position in Communist Cheenae), he nanetheless served as the paramount leader o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae frae 1978 tae the early 1990s.

Born intae a peasant backgrund in Guang'an, Sichuan, Cheenae, Deng studied an wirkt in Fraunce in the 1920s, whaur he came unner the influence o Marxism. He joined the Communist Pairty o Cheenae in 1923. Upon his return tae Cheenae he wirkt as a political commissar in rural regions an wis considered a "revolutionary veteran" o the Long Mairch. Follaein the foondin o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae in 1949, Deng wirkt in Tibet an ither soothwastren regions tae consolidate Communist control. He wis an aa instrumental in Cheenae's economic reconstruction follaein the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s. His economic policies wur at odds wi the political ideologies o Chairman Mao Zedong. As a result, he wis purged twice durin the Cultural Revolution but regained prominence in 1978 bi ootmaneuverin Mao's chosen successor, Hua Guofeng.

Inheriting a kintra wrought wi social an institutional woes resultin frae the Cultural Revolution an ither mass political movements o the Mao era, Deng became the core o the "seicont generation" o Cheenese leadership. He is considered "the architect" o a new brand o socialist thinkin, haein developed Socialism wi Cheenese characteristics an led Chinese economic reform through a synthesis o theories that became kent as the "socialist market economy". Deng opened Cheenae tae foreign investment, the global market, an limitit private competition. He is generally creditit wi advancin Cheenae intae ane o the fastest growin economies in the warld for ower thirtie years an raisin the staundart o livin o hunders o millions o Cheenese.