Born on August 22, 1904, Deng Xiaoping is regarded as the "chief architect" of China's economic reform. The reform and opening-up drive in the late 1970s is seen as a decisive moment in modern China's development and crucial to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
By directing China's reform and opening-up since 1978 and innovating socialism with Chinese characteristics, the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping made a breakthrough in improving the institutional building of modern China, leading the country from the rule of man to the rule of law.
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