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“In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.”

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Deng Xiaoping, originally named Deng Xiansheng, was born on August 22, 1904, in Guang'an, Sichuan Province, China. He was a great proletarian revolutionary, politician, military strategist, and diplomat, a loyal communist fighter, the overall designer of China's reform and opening up and modernization construction, the founder of the socialist road with Chinese characteristics, and the main founder of Deng Xiaoping Theory. Deng Xiaoping's life was a lifelong struggle for the independence, liberation, prosperity, democracy, civilization, and harmony of the Chinese nation. more

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