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...rival those of America, Japan and Europe. It would not be the first time Shenzhen has led the way. The city, located in southern China's Pearl River Delta, has been at the forefront of China's free-market reforms for 25 years. In 1979, late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping designated Shenzhen as one of the county's first special economic zones (SEZs), offering privileged terms to foreign companies wanting to invest there...
...existential mood, not so long ago, he asked his class: what makes “the good life?” “One with lots of money,” they replied in unison. It’s been about three decades since former Chinese premier Deng Xiaoping proclaimed “to get rich is glorious,” and the Chinese people have taken him at his word. Luoyang, though a far cry from the sparkling metropolises of Shanghai and Hong Kong, is hardly austere. Ladies in posh dresses and heels browse marbled department stores. McDonald?...
...vast diaspora of Wangs all over the world, who want a place to venerate their ancestors. "My parents worshipped Chairman Mao," says Su Min, a 31-year-old tourism official who prays twice a month at the Zhenwu Taoist Temple near Quanzhou. "Then we believed in [former Chinese leader] Deng Xiaoping because he brought economic reforms that made our lives better. But now after Deng, we don't have anyone to believe in, so we have turned back to religion...
President Hu Jintao of CHINA, who travels to Washington next week, leads a country whose economic might is in many ways the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, the first top Communist Chinese leader to visit...
...country whose combination of capitalist economy and communist government has been a delicate balancing act, Hu's harkening back to socialist values could backfire, giving new life to a long-hibernating political faction. For years, as previous rulers Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin championed the market economy, a core of old-guard leftists in the Communist Party seethed. As long as China's economy grew and citizens traded in bicycles for fancy cars, though, they couldn't complain too loudly...