In September 1988, she was conferred the military rank of colonel, and was promoted to the rank of major general in July 1993. She retired from the army in 1995. Deng Xianqun told reporters that she was born in 1935, and there were eight siblings in her family. Comrade Xiaoping was more than 30 years older than her, and he was her eldest brother, while she was the youngest sister in the family. "Although my eldest brother and I have different mothers but the same father, he loved me most when I was a child. On September 25, 2007, Major General Deng Xianqun...