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NIAN Guangjiu, 71 years old, still keeps anold businesscard printed with a speechby the late Chinese leaderDeng Xiaopingreferringto his "Fool's WatermelonSeed" company, one of thefirst private enterprises toemerge in the early stagesof China's reforms. It reads:"Give them a chance to try.Let us wait and see."