He came at a time when Maoist radical socialist 'Great Leap Forward' and 'Cultural Revolution' had left China bleeding like a failed state.He came exactly at a time Chinese finally discovered that radical socialist adventures had finally reached the end of the road. In short, timely, he came when the graveyards of radical socialism had been filled with no more space for any further experimentation.So determined, Deng Xiaoping came not only to clean up the entire mess Maoist (1949-1978) socialist radicalisms had caused his beloved China, but also to now take this giant dragon on a tempestuous economic voyage, an unheard of one-way social-capitalist journey. So, yes, he came looking unassuming with his cherubic and rounded face, looking weak and undetermined comrade. But behind all his powerless looks, was belied a steel-willed man, a political bulldozer, and above all, an immensely endowed leader with infinite commonsense wisdom. In other words, behind those nave-looks, was hidden a highly gifted larger-than-life patriarch on economic mountain-moving mission. And behind that easygoing Deng, was also a ferocious political tactician, a hardened Sun Tzu master strategist, a lion-hearted leader ready to bring to his beloved China ' and in his own life ' a never witnessed economic prosperity, never ever in any known human history. And that he began exactly on December 18, 1978 during the Third Plenum. Bravely standing, piecing the minds of members of his China's omnipotent Communist Party political elite, unyieldingly, he demanded and got a wholesome support to freely set China on those seismic economic reforms. Emerging from the Third Plenum, he was quick to get to work, setting China on a tempestuous voyage, starting with agriculture. Dismantling communes and collective farms he turned peasant farmers overnight into ferocious entrepreneurs and ordered that henceforth, Chinese farmers should earn and keep all their farm profits. Followed was ordering that China's vast stolen money kept overseas be quickly brought back home and invested in productive enterprises; that order, was obeyed as if coming from God. Next was time to take full advantage of the newfound Sino-US friendship. Recognised as decisive game-changer, and knowing that opening up China's coastal regions of Guangdong, Fujian, and Shanghai to the ever-waiting army of overseas Chinese businesses (notably in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau) for Washington's green light, would rush in investing in mainland China, he wasted no time in doing that. Doing that led millions of overseas Chinese to troop into China, wanting to exploit the innumerable business attractions China could offer. But, completely winning their hearts and souls, Deng the Great, not only provided them with fully subsidised land, cheap and reliable power, and water, as well as other business infrastructure, he also ordered China's endless supply of cheap and disciplined labour be fully available for them. Ensuring they invested without regrets, Deng offered them outright capital grants, tax holidays, and export tax rebates. As if not enough, besides ordering everyone to work patriotically, he demanded high saving and sacrificial living on life's essentials to free more money for expanding and upgrading infrastructure. In an historic investor stampede, never seen in human history, millions of foreign investors rushed in, wanting to take advantage of these unbelievable investment treasures while they lasted. Mostly, millions of overseas Chinese manufacturing entrepreneurs quickly dismantled and relocated their factories to China. Brought along with world-class management, marketing channels, and technology, soon China's foreign trade exploded. Excited and confident competing side-by-side with their overseas brothers and sisters, millions of deep-asleep local entrepreneurs, not only woke up from their slumber, but also shrewdly joined an unmatched entrepreneurial race, a race to make China the world's manufacturing workshop. With this came a matchless growth in GDP averaging 10 percent annually, and unheard of job breeding averaging 12 million yearly. So, the race to reclaim China's past economic and military glories had just begun.
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