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Deng lives on in bronze
By Guo Nei (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-08-14 00:35
A bronze statue of China's "chief reform architect" Deng Xiaoping
has been placed in the late leader's ancestral home town just before the 100th
anniversary of his birth.
President Hu Jintao
on Friday helps unveil the bronze statue of late Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping (1904-97) in Deng's hometown of Guang'an in the southwestern
province of Sichuan. [Xinhua] |
Acclaimed as
leading China into its opening-up and reform policies from 1978, Deng died in
1997 at the age of 93. His birthday falls on August 22. A farmyard boy, he grew
up to be instrumental in setting up China's market economy.
Chinese President Hu Jintao led Deng's family members, central and local
officials, and students to the unveiling of the statue, in Paifeng Village,
Guang'an City, in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
President Hu Jintao unveils the bronze statue
of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping during a ceremony in the city of
Guang'an, hometown of Deng Xiaoping, in southwest China's Sichuan
Province, Aug. 13, 2004. [Xinhua] |
Hu said
Deng's great achievements in China's revolution, construction and reform will be
remembered forever. The ideological riches he left for the country will inspire
us all to move forward, he said.
It is already seven years since Deng died, but he still commands reverence
and is remembered fondly by the Chinese people and the Communist Party of China,
Hu said.
Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Committee, made an inscription
for the statue.
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