Deng remembered ten years after death
(Reuters/newsphoto) Updated: 2007-02-19 13:59

A vendor holds a photograph to promote his snapshots business in front of a
billboard featuring a portrait of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in
Shenzhen, China February 19, 2007. The huge billboard of Deng presides over an
intersection in the heart of Shenzhen, part shrine, part tourist attraction and
part ad for market reforms. Hundreds visit each day. A few bring flowers.
Everyone poses for pictures. For those without cameras, 20 yuan (US$2.58) buys
two snapshots of yourself, printed and laminated on the spot -- one before the
Deng billboard, and one facing the other way with Shenzhen's skyscrapers in the
background. Ten years after his death, Deng Xiaoping, often referred to simply
as "Comrade Xiaoping", is still revered as the man who truly awakened the
sleeping giant that was China. [Reuters]

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