Hu: Deng Xiaoping is an outstanding leader

Chinese President Hu Jintao praised Deng Xiaoping as an outstanding leader whose high prestigewas recognized by the Party, the military and the people of all ethnic groups throughout China.

At a grand gathering to commemorate the birth centenary of Denghere Sunday, Hu called Deng a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist and diplomat, and a long-tested Communist fighter, the chief architect of China's socialist reform, opening-up and modernization drive, and founder of Deng Xiaoping Theory.

Source: Xinhua