How did Deng Xiaoping improve China's economy?

Question

How did Deng Xiaoping improve China's economy?

Answer 1

Opened China to the West. Negotiated with the Nixon administration adn subsequent administrations.

Got mainland CHina recognized as a nation at the UN and Taiwan unrecognized, and it goes on.

Finally, he opened China up to the prospects of an economic revolution by adopting free market strategies rather than centralized economic planning.

Answer 2

Inheriting a China wrought with social and institutional woes left over from the devastating Cultural Revolution and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core of the second generation Chinese leadership. He was instrumental in introducing a new brand of socialist thinking, having developed Socialism with Chinese characteristics and Chinese economic reform, also known as the socialist market economy and partially opened China to the global market. He is generally credited with advancing China into becoming one of the fastest growing economies in the world and vastly raising the standard of living.