Chinese Paramount Leader (1978-1989 de facto) who launched the market-oriented "Reform and Opening Up" that transformed China into the world's second-largest economy; also ordered the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
- Lived: 1904 CE – 1997 CE
- Nationality: chinese
- Roles: Paramount Leader of China (1978–92), Chairman of the Central Military Commission (1981–89)
