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Deng Xiaoping

The latest stories on Deng Xiaoping, Chinese statesman, revolutionary, political theorist and former Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.<br />

Born

22 Aug 1904

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Politics

Job Title

Late paramount leader, China

last updated:

4 December, 2024

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, with son on his shoulders, is to co-chair the newly created Department of Government Efficiency with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy (in a blue tie). Both men seen before a meeting with Congress members at the US Capitol in Washington on December 5. Photo: AFP

China economy

Opinion | What Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can learn from China’s reformers

Deng Xiaoping and Zhu Rongji’s radical reforms resulted in a leaner government and more dynamic economy: the exact goals of the Musk-Ramaswamy plan.

15 Dec 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

Hong Kong Basic Law

Opinion | Deng Xiaoping and the Tibet factor in ‘one country, two systems’

4 Sep 2024 - 10:20AMvideocam

Global Impact

Global Impact | China celebrates Deng, but how has ‘true heir’ Xi taken up the reins?

9 Sep 2024 - 8:58AMvideocam

China economy

Opinion | If Deng Xiaoping were alive, he would worry about China’s shifting priorities

Deng’s guiding philosophy of the centrality of economic development is rarely mentioned now, and has become secondary to national security.

2 Sep 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

Hong Kong politics

Deng Xiaoping’s one country, two systems path for Hong Kong – a work in progress

Hong Kong analysts and experts discuss how Deng Xiaoping’s policy approach to the city has changed amid protests, pandemics and economic changes.

26 Aug 2024 - 11:41AMvideocam

China’s military

China’s military focuses on beating ‘strong enemies’ in Deng commemorations

120th anniversary events focused on Deng’s military reforms but, unlike the 1980s, Beijing is now far more concerned about security threats.

23 Aug 2024 - 8:55PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

As China recounts Deng’s legacy, Xi’s challenge to motivate country in focus

Chinese from all walks of life look back at how their lives have changed as a result of Deng’s policies.

23 Aug 2024 - 9:19AMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

Honour reformer Deng Xiaoping by realising China’s revival, Xi Jinping says

‘We must steadfastly implement one country, two systems,’ Xi says, marking 120th anniversary of birth of Communist Party patriarch.

23 Aug 2024 - 12:55AMvideocam

China economy

Opinion | The seeds of Deng Xiaoping’s legacy have yielded remarkable progress

Ambitious and rapid transformations in China over the last four decades have few historical parallels.

22 Aug 2024 - 4:30PM

120th anniversary of birth of Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping: architect of modern China

22 Aug 2024 - 10:41AM

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China’s Communist Party

As China celebrates Deng Xiaoping’s legacy, the country is again at a crossroads

Deng and his ‘true heir’ Xi Jinping differ in strategies and approaches, but closer examination reveals many core similarities.

27 Aug 2024 - 11:57AMvideocam

China manufacturing

How China used Japanese know-how to outpace rival in EV, steel production

With a lengthy joint venture in steel between China and Japan coming to an end, analysts reflect on its broader meaning in the context of the two countries’ new roles in the global economy.

23 Aug 2024 - 12:56PMvideocam

My Take

My Take | Why China should cherish Deng Xiaoping’s ‘thought emancipation’

By freeing China from Maoist ideological shackles, the late leader unleashed an era of economic and social liberalisation.

20 Aug 2024 - 10:38AM

China’s Communist Party

China still gives Deng Xiaoping the stamp of approval, 120 years after his birth

Beijing has not said how leaders will mark the anniversary but it will be a chance for them to think about the past and a way forward.

13 Aug 2024 - 7:00PMvideocam

Late Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping is known as the country’s chief architect of reform and opening up. Photo: Simon Song

Books and literature

‘Do not turn back!’ Deng Xiaoping’s landmark 1992 Shenzhen tour

In 1992, eight years after his first visit, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping returned to the rapidly growing Shenzhen special economic zone whose transformation he had orchestrated.

12 May 2024 - 7:45AM

Deng Xiaoping’s daughter Deng Nan points out the sights of Shenzhen’s Splendid China Folk Village theme park to her father during his 1992 Southern Tour. Photo: AP

China economy

My Take | China must stop chipping away at Deng Xiaoping’s economic legacy

Twenty-seven years have passed since the death of China’s reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, but it seems that today there are different interpretations of his legacy – a worrying and disappointing development.

20 Feb 2024 - 9:38AM

US-China relations

Oops. US President Joe Biden mixes up his Chinese leaders

The White House corrects the record but social media users still take a moment to tease the American leader.

13 Dec 2023 - 10:01AM

Profile

He’s dressed Michelle Yeoh, Deng Xiaoping’s daughters: meet Barney Cheng

Hong Kong fashion designer Barney Cheng tells Kate Whitehead about growing up in a huge family, getting culture shock in a Canadian Christian school, and rubbing shoulders with the fabulously rich.

22 Sep 2023 - 7:15AM

Hong Kong fashion designer Barnie Cheng with Michelle Yeoh at the 2019 AMFAR Gala. Yeoh is wearing a gown he created especially for her. Photo: Barney Cheng

US-China tech war

A key US-China science cooperation deal is about to end

24 Aug 2023 - 10:06AM

China economy

Opinion | What China can learn from Deng Xiaoping about building trust with entrepreneurs

Nian Guangjiu, known for his Idiot Melon Seeds, won tacit approval from China’s paramount leader in the 80s, holding lessons for China today as it seeks to restore trust with private business.

17 Jan 2023 - 7:32AMvideocam

China economy

‘Will it hurt socialism?’: China’s private business trailblazer hailed by Deng dies

Nian Guangjiu of ‘Idiot’s Melon Seeds’, a witness to the rise of the non-state sector under the Communist Party, died on Wednesday aged 84.

14 Jan 2023 - 4:30PMvideocam

Nian Guangjiu with a pack of his iconic “Idiot’s Melon Seeds”. Photo: Weibo

China’s 20th Party Congress

Deng Xiaoping: gone but not forgotten as China faces big challenges

Tributes from the public to the late leader flowed online on the anniversary of Deng’s birth.

25 Aug 2022 - 9:00PM

Deng Xiaoping is remembered as the architect of China’s opening up policy. Photo: Sam Tsang

China’s 20th Party Congress

Xi wants ‘new era’ for China economy, leaving Deng’s ‘get rich’ policy behind

Since taking office in 2013, Xi Jinping has stamped his mark on the economy like few of China’s leaders before him. But some analysts say important reform has taken a back seat.

25 Aug 2022 - 9:54AMvideocam

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City Beat

City Beat | Should capitalist Hong Kong worry about Beijing’s common prosperity drive?

State media has denied any Chinese version of a Robin Hood-style approach to wealth inequality, but message to city is loud and clear: it cannot rely on real estate to be its engine for future development.

26 Sep 2021 - 10:23PMvideocam

Diplomacy

China urged to do its part to reverse ‘worrying’ erosion of goodwill in EU

China’s image in Europe is rapidly deteriorating and Beijing must do its part to change the massive erosion of goodwill, says EU ambassador to China Nicolas Chapuis.

11 Dec 2020 - 5:13AMvideocam

European Union ambassador to Beijing Nicolas Chapuis says China’s image in Europe is deteriorating. Photo: Bloomberg

Xi Jinping

The East Stand | Maradona, China and when football was not politics

Deng Xiaoping’s desire to bring Argentine great seemed borne of love of the game, Xi Jinping’s World Cup dream less so as China’s emergence as a soft power in the sport has shown how the world game has become tool of globalisation.

29 Nov 2020 - 2:00PMvideocam

Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona enters the stadium ahead of a charity football match in Jinan in 2010. Photo: Xinhua

My Hong Kong

My Hong Kong | Reprehensible behaviour of Hong Kong’s dance hall divas must stop

Dance club cluster shows a lack of care for the greater good. If we are to beat the coronavirus then everyone must do their bit, even older women and their younger instructors.

4 May 2021 - 4:25PMvideocam

Fame and celebrity

When Maradona spurned Deng Xiaoping invite to play in China

As Chinese fans mourn the death of the ‘king of football’, we look at China’s connection with Diego Maradona, including the time Deng Xiaoping wanted him to play in Beijing.

26 Nov 2020 - 6:47PMvideocam

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