From Reuters:
Every day a stream of people climb a winding path to the peak of Shenzhen‘s Lotus Hill where a huge bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping surveys the frenzied economic boomtown he helped create out of nothing almost 30 years ago.
“China’s strides toward prosperity belong in some part to Deng Xiaoping,” said Guo Xiao, a 24-year-old migrant worker from Henan province who snapped photos of his girlfriend posing beneath the patriarch of China’s economic opening.
“When we look at him, we think of Shenzhen’s development. He is a great Chinese man,” added Guo, as groups of schoolchildren and a delegation from far-flung Tibet milled about and laid wreaths at the feet of the stylized Communist Party memorial.
