The person instrumental in china's economic reconstruction gradually rose to supreme power.
Deng Xiaoping served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC).  Deng Xiaoping was praised for his reaffirmation of the reform program in his Southern Tour of 1992 as well as the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997 and the return of Macau in 1999. As the party's Secretary-General under Mao and Vice Premier in he 1950s, Deng Xiaoping presided over the Anti-Rightist Campaign launched by Mao. Deng Xiaoping became instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following the disastrous Great Leap Forward (1958–1960). Mao Zedong died in 1976. After Mao Zedong's death, Deng Xiaoping gradually rose to supreme power.
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