历史上从未有哪个经济体经历过如此大规模、如此快速的增长，因此，用邓小平的话说，管理中国发展的唯一办法是“摸着石头过河 ” 。
Because no economy had ever experienced such rapid growth on such a large scale, the only way to manage China’s development was, as Deng put it, to “cross the river by feeling the stones.”