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Mao died in September, 1976, and the party members soon reinstated Deng Xiaoping as the deputy premier, chief of staff of the army, and member of the Central Committee of the Politburo in 1978. In 1981 the members of the Gang of Four were convicted of undermining the party and the economy.

Full diplomatic relations were established between Beijing and Washington after Deng's visit to the US in 1979. Hu Yaobang was made the CCP chairman whilst Deng Xiaoping became the chairman of the Central Committee's military commission. China experienced sweeping economic changes, and western technology and management techniques were imported under Deng's leadership. Reform-minded Hu Yaobang was ousted from the post of party chairman in January, 1987 which led to protests in the Tiananmen Square which were quickly quelled by the party. China continued its drive of economic reforms with political authoritarianism with the appointments in 1993 of Jiang Zemin as the President and Li Peng as the Premier for a five-year term. Deng Xiaoping died in 1997.

Zhu Ronji became the Prime Minister in 1998 and continued with the reforms more aggressively by privatising the state run businesses. Britain handed over Hong Kong in 1997, and the Portuguese handed over Macau to China sovereignty in 1999.

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