Deng Xiaoping - Documentary

Chinese politician and communist leader born in Sichuan province, main inspirer of the reaction against Maoism and the introduction of the latest major political and economic reforms in China (1980-1990). He studied in France and the Soviet Union, and returned to his country to develop the political and military organization of the Red Army in the south of the country. Linked to the Communist Party since his youth, he participated in the Long March commanded by Mao Tsé-tung, and with the victory of the communists (1949), he began to occupy high positions in the government, as deputy prime minister (1952) and general secretary of the Communist Party (1954). It was decisive in changing Sino-Soviet relations over the next decade. Dismissed during the cultural revolution, a movement that ended at the IX Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (1969), he was arrested and accused of following capitalist trends.

He resumed the post of deputy prime minister at the time of creating that of deputy chairman of the Party's central committee and member of the Politburo (1975). Strongman of the Mao Tse-tung government, with his death (1976) he was temporarily removed from power by Hua Kuo-feng. but he soon returned to being China's chief political leader, once again becoming the country's strongman. From the following year onwards, he distanced himself from Maoist postulates, fighting radical opponents, especially the so-called gang of four. He became president of the Central Military Commission of the PCC (1981), a position he held until his resignation (1990). Began an economic reform (1984), rejecting the Soviet model.