Beijing, 23 August 2024 (TDI): China’s President Xi Jinping lauded the “outstanding contributions” of late leader Deng Xiaoping and emphasized advancing socialism with Chinese characteristics initiated by Deng, as the country marked Deng’s 120th birth anniversary on Thursday.
Addressing a meeting held to mark Deng’s anniversary, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said the country needs to continue to thoroughly study and apply Deng Xiaoping Theory.
Deng made outstanding contributions to CPC, the people, the country, the nation and the world, Xi said, adding that Deng’s achievements have been immortalized in history and will always inspire the coming generations.
Deng was the core of the second generation of the CPC’s central collective leadership, the chief architect of socialist reforms in China, opening up and modernization, and the trailblazer of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Xi said, adding that Deng was also a great globalist who made significant contributions to world peace and development.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping had lived a fighting, glorious, and extraordinary life, he said.
Xi noted that, after the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long turmoil that ended in 1976, Deng had led CPC and the people in achieving China’s historic transformation.
He pushed the country to achieve a new breakthrough in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, break new ground in socialist modernization, and set a correct path for the nations’s complete reunification, Xi said.
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Deng’s historical achievements are groundbreaking and comprehensive, with profound and lasting impacts on both China and the world, Xi said.
“We will forever remember the great historical achievements of Deng and forever revere his noble revolutionary conduct,” Xi said.
The most important intellectual legacy left by him is Deng Xiaoping Theory, Xi said, urging for thoroughly studying and applying it to address real-world problems.
