Word: deng
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Such concern could mount as long as the government pursues a policy of trial and error, one day stressing a capitalist slogan ("To Get Rich Is Glorious"), the next a Communist one ("Sacrifice for Socialism"). The most urgent priority of what some Chinese call Deng's "cultureless (materialistic) revolution" is to find a new dynamic for China that can help ensure the stability of its society even when the inevitable economic and political disappointments occur. The pragmatists have succeeded in brushing off the ashes of Maoism. They must now find a way of enabling the Middle Kingdom to advance...
This ambivalent feeling about wealth and the means of obtaining it is just one indication of a startling transformation that is sweeping the world's most populous country, the result of a reform program that is even now being re- examined by the Chinese government. Deng, 81, and his allies are steering China through the most dramatic yet peaceful turnabout in a long, strife-laden history. The very word modernization has become a symbol of national purpose as Deng's forces strive to update Chinese industry, agriculture, science and technology, and defense--even China's way of thinking. The goal...
...transformation is the country's aging leader, the shrewd and gritty party veteran who refers to the program of economic reform as China's "second revolution." Whether in reaction to the paroxysms of hero worship that accompanied Maoism or perhaps out of a personal sense of propriety, Deng Xiaoping has actively discouraged a personality cult for himself. His portrait does not adorn government offices, and his ancestral home in Sichuan, though well maintained, is virtually unknown to Chinese citizens. Still, the man and the "revolution" are inseparable, and Deng's personal popularity appears to be on the increase...
...long-awaited conference of the Chinese Communist Party that begins this week, Deng hopes to secure his vision by promoting some of his younger loyalists to positions of party leadership, thereby safeguarding his legacy of reform. In Peking last week, taxis and hotel rooms were in short supply as the more than 1,000 conference delegates began to arrive in the capital. At the gathering, only the fourth such meeting in the 64-year history of the Chinese party, delegates will discuss a proposed new five-year plan for national development and other topics, but the "central mission...
...named to the 24-member Politburo, while between 30 and 50 newcomers could replace party veterans on the 210-member Central Committee. Says a middle-level official: "The changes will be part of a flowing movement rather than an abrupt one, but they will be substantial and profound." Deng, who knows full well that no program of reforms is irreversible, put it crisply when he told a group of visiting Japanese legislators, "We will guarantee the continuity of the policy currently in force in China...