A. Zhao Ziyang
B. Bo Yibo
C. Deng Xiaoping
D. Hu Yaobang
Answer & Solution
Option: C
Explanation :Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician who was the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. After Chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, Deng led China through far-reaching market-economy reforms.
Deng was the Time Person of the Year in 1978 and 1985, the third Chinese leader (after Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling) and the fourth communist leader (after Joseph Stalin, picked twice; and Nikita Khrushchev) to be selected. He was criticized for ordering the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but praised for his reaffirmation of the reform program in his Southern Tour of 1992 and the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997. Deng died in February 1997, aged 92.
Explanation :Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician who was the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. After Chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, Deng led China through far-reaching market-economy reforms.
Deng was the Time Person of the Year in 1978 and 1985, the third Chinese leader (after Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling) and the fourth communist leader (after Joseph Stalin, picked twice; and Nikita Khrushchev) to be selected. He was criticized for ordering the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but praised for his reaffirmation of the reform program in his Southern Tour of 1992 and the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997. Deng died in February 1997, aged 92.
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