Word: deng
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Another likely leader for the '90s is Wang Zhaoguo, 44, director of the Communist Party's general office. His story is almost a Chinese version of a Horatio Alger tale. In 1980 Wang, who was then a deputy factory director, was assigned to take Deng on an inspection tour of Hubei province's No. 2 automobile plant. The bespectacled technician made such a good impression on Deng that he was promptly transferred to Peking. Two years later, Wang was elevated to the Central Committee...
Waiting in the wings are several others. Among them is Hu Jintao, 42, an economist who recently transferred from the Communist Youth League to be party chief of Guizhou province, one of the country's most challenging posts. Like Wang Zhaoguo, Hu Jintao was discovered by Deng on an inspection tour in the provinces. One of the youngest of the heirs apparent is Zhang Wei, 33, a Communist Youth League follower of Hu Qili, who has been active in Tianjin City's economic reforms...
...have the advantage of being sponsored by friends in high places. Yet the protege system has one drawback: none of the third-echelon leaders has been through the byzantine politicking and the festering feuds that have long characterized life at the top of the party. In Chinese politics, as Deng knows all too well, there is no substitute for that experience...
These small, low-risk economic bodies, which have sprouted throughout China, are an important component of Deng Xiaoping's second revolution. They serve as manageable guinea pigs, where the authorities can tinker with flexible production lines or even try out such foreign devices as stockholding and mergers. "We have a saying," explains Shen Yuanlong, director of the Peking- based State Administration for Industry and Commerce, " 'A small boat can turn back more easily...
...tale of Ju, the all too successful entrepreneur, exemplifies in a small * but revealing way some of the tensions and paradoxes created by the daring "Four Modernizations" policy that has been pursued since 1977 by China's leader, Deng Xiaoping. On the one hand, Ju's embarrassment of riches advertises the potential of free enterprise in China, where even the People's Daily, the Communist Party newspaper, has declared that "getting rich and buying consumer goods is not decadent--especially if it makes life more pleasant." On the other hand, the ostracism suffered by Ju highlights the difficulties of introducing...