Deng Reportedly Makes Appearance
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HONG KONG — Deng Xiaoping, China’s 89-year-old leader who hasn’t been seen in public for 11 months, visited Shanghai earlier this month and called for fast growth, a newspaper said Friday.
Deng praised Shanghai’s economic reforms and said “all obstacles to reform should be removed,” the English-language South China Morning Post said, quoting Chinese sources.
The date of the visit wasn’t given. Deng is believed to have various ailments, and rumors of his imminent death are rife in Beijing.
His last public appearance was in January, at Lunar New Year celebrations in Shanghai.
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