BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The
Kazakh and Uzbek presidents have separately sent messages to their Chinese
counterpart Hu Jingtao to pay homage to late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping on
the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
In the messages,
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Uzbek President Islam Karimov highly
valued Deng's great achievements, saying that China owed its rapid development
over the past 20 years to Deng's political wisdom.
Both highly commended Deng's creation of
the theory of buildingsocialism with Chinese characteristics combining the
maintenance of political stability with the development of a market economy in
China, paving the way for China's steady development.
Deng, the architect of China's policy of
reform and opening to the outside world, was born in Guang'an County in
southwest China's Sichuan Province on August 22, 1904. He died in February
1997 at the age of 93.
