Abstract

History has presented us with several examples of leaders who took their peoples by the hands and took them to a broad horizon of progress, and one of the most famous of these models is the model of the Chinese leadership represented in the leadership of leader Deng Xiaoping of China in the period 1978-1992. The real starting point for Deng Xiaoping was from his vision that departing on the line of socialism is not defective if the goal is to save the economy, and this vision in itself was a reason to exclude him from political life twice during the era of Mao Zedong. However, his belief in its ability to save China prompted him to work to mobilize its supporters from other party leaders, and his call to liberate party cadres from the shackles of Maoist ideology, in preparation for its application after assuming power in China in 1978, and this was embodied in the launch of the four modernization programs (agriculture, industry, Defense, Science and Technology) and its emphasis on openness to the outside world in order to serve modernization programmes. In view of the limited space available, the research specialized in the call to liberate thought and economic aspects of modernization. The research attempted to answer two important questions: To what extent has Deng Xiaoping really managed to liberate the thought of Party cadres to believe in his reform vision? Was it really possible to achieve a qualitative leap in the Chinese economy? We tried to answer these two questions by referring to a number of documents and sources directly related to the subject, including the works of Deng Xiaoping himself entitled:

The article was added to IASJ on 2021-07-15

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