Deng Xiaoping Biography

Establishes a military base in Guangxi Province unnder orders from Zhou En-Lai

Xiaopings military base in Guangxi is captured, he joins Maos base in Ruijing

Appointed Political Commissar during the civil war

Deng Xiaoping works with Liu Bocheng in Communist political and military command during the renewed war

Appointed Member of Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Deng Xiaoping helps coordinate political preparations concerning Tibet through the Southwest Bureau.

Appointed Secretary General of the Communist Party of China

Appointed Member of Politburo

Held under house arrest in Nanjing

Purged because of his opposition to the "great leap forward"

Deng Xiaoping is soon drawn into the attack on senior party leaders after the May 16 Notification

Deng Xiaoping is removed from power and attacked as China's number two capitalist roader

Reappointed to the Central Committee

Deng Xiaoping is rehabilitated and returns to senior office after Cultural Revolution purges

Deng Xiaoping is restored to government work with Zhou Enlai's support and Mao's approval

Covers for his patron, Zhou Enlai, after the latters heart attack

Deng Xiaoping supports Zhou Enlai's Four Modernizations programme against radical opposition

Deng Xiaoping leads efforts to restore order in railways, industry and education

Death of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping is recalled

A demonstration turns into a riot & the "Gang of Four" depose Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping is blamed by radicals after public mourning for Zhou Enlai becomes political protest

Deng Xiaoping engineers the "Beijing Spring" of political liberation

Serves Hua Kuo-Feng as Chief of Staff of Chinese armed forces

The CPC under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping moves towards Socialism with Chinese characteristics and institutes Chinese economic reform

Promotes a policy of economic liberalization

The CPC under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping moves towards Socialism with Chinese characteristics and institutes Chinese economic reform. In reversing some of Maos "extreme-leftist" policies, Deng argued that a socialist country and the market economy model were not mutually exclusive

Appointed Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party

Deng Xiaoping is restored to office after the fall of the Gang of Four and the repudiation of radical Cultural Revolution politics

Deng Xiaoping is restored to his leading posts after the Cultural Revolution radicals are defeated

The Plenum of the 11th Party Congress ushers in capitalist-style economic reform

The Plenum of the 11th Party Congress ushers in capitalist-style economic reform

Appointed Party Leader of the Communist Party

The USA recognizes the Peoples Republic of China

A Treaty of friendship is signed between China & Japan

Deng Xiaoping promotes reversing chaos and correcting wrong verdicts left from the Cultural Revolution

Stops the Democracy Wall protests in Beijing

Month-long trial of the "Gang of Four" (Mao associates)

Month-long trial of the "Gang of Four" (Mao associates)

Visits the USA & reinforces good relations. Informs President Carter personally that China will attack North Vietnam

China invades Vietnam for a 4 week period

Deng Xiaoping seizes power and launches pseudo-capitalistic economic reforms

The party adopts a historical resolution condemning the Cultural Revolution as a grave error

The Congress reaffirms Dengs policies, including economic liberalization

The 6th National Peoples Congress adpots new Civil Law of the Peoples Republic of China

Deng Xiaoping boosts "Open-door" policy to encourage Foreign Direct Investments

Dismisses the Party Secretary Hu Yaobang for his criticisms of the Deng regime

China successfully launches the DFH-2A fully operational communication satellite into earths orbit

Excessive economic growth with rampand corruption and out-of-control inflation of 18.5%

The Central Committee cuts Xiaopings reforms which cause inflation & stop-go growth

The Central Committee cuts Xiaopings reforms which cause inflation & stop-go growth

Imposes a curfew on Beijing

Retires after increasing centralization following the demonstrations in Tiananmen Sqr

Students demand the resignations of Deng Xiaoping & Li Peng. Students demand greater democratic freedom

A crowd of 10,000 gathers at Tiananmen Square

100,000 defy Government troops by marching through the streets & shouting slogans

Students begin a hunger strike

The Government imposes martial law. Pro-democracy demonstrations are crushed in Tiananmen Square

The 14th Party Congress supports Dengs economic reforms & "socialist market economy"

Tours the "Gold Coast" & gives support to economic reform. Deng encourages the return back to economic reforms

Communist Chinas gross domestic product grows at an average annual rate of about 10%, the highest in the world, between 1994 and 2000. China, Russia and three (later four) former Soviet republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

China, Russia and three (later four) former Soviet republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

Dengs vision for economic success and a new socialist market model became entrenched in the Communist Party constitution in 1997 as Deng Xiaoping Theory

Dengs vision for economic success and a new socialist market model became entrenched in the Communist Party constitution in 1997 as Deng Xiaoping Theory

Dengs vision for economic success and a new socialist market model became entrenched in the Communist Party constitution in 1997 as Deng Xiaoping Theory

Dengs vision for economic success and a new socialist market model became entrenched in the Communist Party constitution in 1997 as Deng Xiaoping Theory

Death of Deng Xiaoping

Death of Deng Xiaoping