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Deng Xiaoping,a brilliant leader in the shaping of modern China,the Architect of China's Reform and Opening-up,was born in the province of Sichuan on August 22 in 1904.His former name was Deng Xixian.He had studied in France since 1920 to 1925,where he joined the * Party,and then in the Soviet Union for one year.In March 1927 he returned to China and work at the Sun-Yat-sen Military and political Academy.During the period of Jiangxi Soviet（1928-1934）,he became associated with Mao *.In 1957 ,Deng became General Secretary of the * Party and ran the country's daily affairs.In 1966,Mao * launched the Cultural Revolution,Deng fell out of favor and was criticized and purged from his offices,but returned in 1974 as vice premier,vice chairman of * Party.Again he was dismissed in 1976,but in the same year after Mao’s death,he was restored once more to power.After 1978 he took China through a rapid course of pragmatic reform and succeeded in setting China on the road to socialist modernization.In 1997,he died from Parkinson's disease at the age of 93.