Eyewitness to decades of progress

Deng's former interpreter recalls big changes in 'unexpected career'

UNITED NATIONS - "I'm very fortunate to have been a beneficiary, participant of and witness to China's reform and opening-up policy over the past four decades," said Chen Feng at United Nations headquarters.

As a member of China's first generation of professionally trained simultaneous interpreters, he served as the last English translator for Deng Xiaoping, the late Chinese leader widely regarded as the "Chief Architect of China's reform and opening-up".