In early 1992, on his tour of the south, Deng Xiaoping said: “Not debating is an invention of mine. We do not debate so that we win time to act. Once there is a debate, things get complicated. All the time is argued away, and nothing gets done.”
The talks appear in volume three of his Selected Works as “Main Points of Talks in Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shanghai and Other Places,” dated January 18 to February 21, 1992.