** FILE ** In this May 8, 1982 file photo, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping is shown at a meeting with U.S. Vice President George Bush, (not shown), in what was then known as Peking, now, Beijing, China. Deng set China on the road from communist central planning to a market-style economy in 1979. That year's GDP was just $300 billion _ one-tenth of the 2007 level _ according to the International Monetary Fund. China passed another milestone in its stunning rise Wednesday Jan. 14, 2008 when new data showed it leapfrogged Germany in 2007 to become the world's third-largest economy. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)