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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese President Hu
Jintao said Sunday late leader Deng Xiaoping has set a shining example for the
people through his unremitting efforts to struggle for the Chinese nation, his
indelible contributions to the Party and his noble moral character as a great
leader.
At a grand gathering to commemorate the birth centenary
of Deng in the Great Hall of the People, Hu enumerated Deng's
achievements and contributions in various stages of his life.
One hundred years ago, Deng Xiaoping was born in
Guang'an County, Sichuan Province. At that time, the Chinese nation sustained
deep misery under feudal oppression and aggression of foreign powers. People
with high ideals were groping the correct way to save China.
From his childhood, Deng Xiaoping was determined to join
the struggle to rejuvenate and save the country and nation. He went to study
in Europe under a work-study program in his early years and there became a
member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), beginning his revolutionary
career.
After he returned to China, he devoted himself
whole-heartedly to the CPC-led fight for national independence and the
liberation of the people. From the Agrarian Revolutionary War to the War of
Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, Deng was a close
comrade-in-arms of Mao Zedong. He made outstanding contributions to the triumph
of the New-Democratic Revolution and the birth of New China and became one of
the founders of the People's Republic of China.
After New China was founded in 1949, Deng became an
important member of the first generation of central collective leadership with
Mao Zedong at the core.
During the "Cultural Revolution," Deng was wrongly
criticized and had all his posts deprived of. He resumed working in 1973, andin
1975 took charge of the day-to-day affairs of the Party, the state and the
military. In the tit-for-tat struggle with the Gang of Four, Deng was again
wrongly criticized and deprived of his posts.
Following the downfall of the Gang of Four and the
end of the "Cultural Revolution," Deng was restored to his former posts.
Underhis guidance, the 11th CPC Central Committee held its Third Plenary Session
in December 1978. It was at the meeting that the CPC Central Committee
re-established the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth
from facts, and made the important decision to shift the focus of the work of
the Party andthe state to socialist modernization, and carry out reform and
opening up.
"The convening of the Third Plenary Session marked
that ComradeDeng Xiaoping has become the core of the second generation of the
Party's central collective leadership," said Hu.
Deng worked with the central collective leadership to
guide theParty in systematically summing up the historical experience sincethe
founding of New China and navigating the correct direction forthe development of
the Party and the state, he said.
Under his guidance, Hu said, the Party established
the "three-step" development strategy for China's modernization, boldly opened
to the outside world, promoted the overall development in economic, political
and cultural fields, as well as national defense and army building. Enditem
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