Deng Sits Back as Younger Leaders Run Policy Meeting
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PEKING — Under the watchful gaze of senior leader Deng Xiaoping, China’s younger generation of technocrats came to the fore today.
Delegates attending the opening session of China’s annual meeting of Parliament applauded Deng as he entered the Great Hall of the People, then settled back in their seats to listen to a wide-ranging and lengthy speech by acting Premier Li Peng.
Deng, 83, smoked occasionally and mopped his brow with a towel as he listened to Li, who is 24 years his junior.
Li warned the 2,900 or so delegates of the danger of inflation which, he said, has eroded the living standards of some of China’s 1 billion people. He called it “the outstanding problem in our economic and social life today.”
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