Summarize how Deng modernized the Chinese economy by crossing the river by feeling the stone.
This is a Chinese expression meaning “to take things step by step.” Deng sought to find out what was best for the Chinese government through dismantling some of the fundamental communist policies. After Deng’s special economic zones was successful, he sought to establish more foreign companies to build factories so that more Chinese workers would have work. Through policies like this, Deng took China from communism towards a market-oriented economy.