Deng Xiaoping was the most powerful and influential of the leaders of the Communist Party of China from the early 1980s until his death. He could be considered the worldś greatest economist. When Mao died, the government was left in turmoil. When Deng Xiaoping took power, he lead a change in direction of the Chinese Communist Party. Through his short eleven year rule he managed to help China achieve the most rapid growth in a major economy in world history. He changed China by introducing a program called the “Four Modernizations” which called for the development and modernization of agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military. He was desperately seeking to make China a major world economic power by the 21st century. When