Word: deng
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...Tieying is the very model of what China's paramount ruler Deng Xiaoping, 80, calls a "third echelon" party leader: young, educated and experienced. Last week Li, 48, became the youngest of nine up-and-coming officials named to head key government agencies. The average age of the new appointees is below 55, and all of them have the equivalent of university degrees as well as other professional qualifications. That meets Deng's criteria for bringing up a new third echelon of party leaders in their 40s and 50s. Deng represents the first echelon, while Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang...
...soccer crowds in 1980, when 50 fans were arrested and fined for setting off firecrackers and hurling broken glass during a match between the National Football team and Britain's Norwich City. Just last month party officials issued instructions for maintaining order and promoting good sportsmanship at soccer matches. Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, is sensitive to public rowdiness because his leftist opponents within the Communist Party are quick to criticize any signs of "bourgeois" trends in Chinese society. As Peking's Sports News sermonized on its front page last week, "Athletic events are a window on socialist...
...past five years, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping has instituted sweeping economic reforms, moving away from rigid state controls and closer to the free-market system. Capitalism advanced a step further last week when the government announced that price controls in Peking would be lifted on more than 1,800 food items, effectively raising their costs by some 50%. The price reforms had already been introduced in 22 other cities and autonomous regions...
Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping has long been pushing for a transfusion of younger blood into the ranks of his country's aging leadership. Now Peking appears to have taken a major step in the gradual switch to a new generation. The People's Daily reported last week that nearly 1,000 "young and dependable cadres" had been selected as reserve leaders at provincial and ministerial levels and more than 10,000 others had been chosen for lesser positions in prefectures, cities and other government departments...
...Premier complained of rises in prices, wages and credit and decried "selfish departmentalism," meaning corruption and profiteering by local officials and managers, who have greater powers today than in the old days of Soviet-style central planning. Citing Deng's recent exhortation for "lofty ideals and moral integrity," Zhao announced a decision to reimpose some bureaucratic controls aimed at increasing government oversight of financial operations. The move was seen as an attempt to consolidate the reform program, rather than retreat from...