Development is still priority

WHAT IS THE GIST OF DENG XIAOPING'S thought and how does it apply to China's development today? These questions are worth discussing as the anniversary of his 110th birthday is observed on Friday.

Deng, known as the architect of China's reform and opening-up, has left us many well-known sayings that can be boiled down to the emancipation of the mind and pragmatism.

It was by emancipation of the mind that the class-struggle mindset, which had been dominant for nearly three decades since the founding of New China, was discarded in the late 1970s and early 1980s.