Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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From this detail, we can see Deng Xiaoping's strategic thinking in leading this arduous transformation: to move forward by feeling the stones, without arguing or making clear policy definitions, and let the final facts define the direction of progress. This reform mindset has turned China into a huge economic testing ground and adventure paradise, where all passion and ambition are infinitely stimulated. The fiery magma erupting from the bottom of society finally ignites the earth. As long as it is conducive to economic development and wealth accumulation, everything seems to be unrestricted. The moral and legal bottom lines of Chinese society are repeatedly challenged and impacted, and public values are becoming increasingly secularized and materialistic.

In January 1983, all of this had just begun. On the 12th, Deng Xiaoping pointed out in a speech that some people should be allowed to become rich first. In many years to come, he repeatedly mentioned 'let some people become rich first', which became one of his most famous reform maxims. It also forms the ideological foundation of Deng style reform, along with famous sayings such as "crossing the river by feeling the stones" and "regardless of whether it is a white or black cat, catching a mouse is a good cat".