Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweeping reshuffle, Hua steps aside for a new Deng team...
...power from one group to another. Along with the resignation of Hua, who, at 60, is himself relatively young, will come the voluntary departure from their government posts of some half a dozen old revolutionaries. The group includes the mastermind of the whole set of changes, Senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, 76, effectively the country's most powerful leader...
...Deng's big show," said one Western diplomat on the eve of the congress. "He wants to unveil his team for the future, and he wants everybody there to see it happen." For Deng, indeed, the National People's Congress promised to be a climactic moment. Since late last year, the canny Vice Premier, who has survived numerous upheavals in and out of power for the past 30 years, has been bringing to the central government a team of tested provincial leaders, most of them in their early 60s. Deng's aim is to see power firmly...
...Deng, along with Hua and the other retiring Vice Premiers, will keep his powerful position in the Communist Party, which remains the seat of ultimate authority in China. But by bringing in a younger, more vigorous team, Deng is clearly hoping to bring more efficiency and energy to China's government ministries. In the same way, he has also been trying to weed out the inefficient, lazy and corrupt officials who snarl the middle levels of China's huge bureaucracy...
...weather instead of bad judgment. Some foreign analysts suspect that the rig disaster could serve as a handy pretext to purge the Petroleum Ministry. A so-called "oil clique" that included Song had concentrated on petroleum at the expense of a more diversified energy policy favored by Deng...