President Hu Jintao (C) visits an
on-going photo, dossier and relics exhibition to mark late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's 100th birthday at the National Museum of
China in Beijing, Aug. 20, 2004. (Xinhua Photo)
BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet)
-- Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao visited an on-going
photo, dossier and relics exhibition here Friday afternoon to mark late
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's 100th birthday, which falls on August
22.
Deng,
who died in 1997 at age 92, introduced the reform and opening-up policies in
China that paved the way for a market economy.
Deng Xiaoping made indelible
historic contributions to the Communist Party of China (CPC), the nation and
the people during more than 70 years of his revolutionary career, and won the
love and esteem of all CPC members, soldiers and people of various ethnic
groups across the country, Hu said.
"Deng's great achievement will be
enshrined in the glorious history of the Chinese nation, and his scientific
theory will guide Chinese people forever," Hu said. "We will always revere,
love and miss him."
Sponsored by the Publicity
Department of the CPC Central Committee, Central Cultural and Historical
Research Institute, Party History Research Center of the CPC Central
Committee, Ministry of Culture, Central Archives, and National Museum of
China, the exhibition has collected more than 320 historic photos,50 dossiers
and 140 pieces of precious relics. Many of them are available for public
viewing for the first time.
The exhibition is being held at
the National Museum. It has attracted more than 70,000 visitors since its
opening on Aug. 10.
