Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter at the arrival ceremony for the Vice Premier of China 1979. Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 1997), was a Chinese politician who was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. After Chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng led China through far-reaching market-economy reforms and has been called the "Architect of Modern China."

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