The Second Field Army, commanded by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, and a corps of the First Field Army, led by He Long, advanced from the south and the north respectively and swiftly liberated the ...

When Deng Xiaoping launched China's "reform and open up" programme in 1979, China's gross domestic product (GDP) was: less than one tenth of the US's The annual average income of a Chinese person ...

But Carter could not have done it without his special relationship with Deng Xiaoping ... his humble background as the son of a peanut farmer, and "folksy style" - which stood in contrast ...

On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China's economy.