China Boom CMS

<p>Mr. Deng Xiaoping was a great, great leader. He started the process of modernization of China. He was really the first one to put the modernization of an ancient civilization in action. And before him, some scholars and philosophers realized what we need to do to modernize this ancient civilization, in particular after the first Opium War in 1840. We lost that war to Great Britain and the transition of a traditional society into a modern society began. But, for most of those years, there was war after war, war against the Western powers, and then the Japanese invasion, the civil war between the Communists and the Guomindang and Chiang Kai-shek; the Chinese people really didn't get a chance to put the idea of modernization in action. Mr. Deng Xiaoping was the first one. But we need a lot more and we need to do a lot more. So, I think the past three decades were only a starting point for the modernization of China.</p>