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Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until the early 1990s. Purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, he returned after Mao's death and launched the policy of reform and opening, restoring family farming, creating Special Economic Zones and admitting foreign investment. He also approved the armed suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
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