Xi Jinping Should Expand Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms

A Party Insider’s Prescription for Change

A month after the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 18th National Congress, the new Secretary General of the CCP and Central Military Commission, comrade Xi Jinping, left Beijing to visit Shenzhen, the first foothold of China’s economic reforms. He placed a wreath on the bronze statue of comrade Deng Xiaoping, who had initiated those reforms twenty years earlier from the same place. Xi said, “The Party Central Committee’s decision to launch Reform and Opening was correct.