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These achievements are just in name only. In reality, ordinary people still live very poorly. In the early days of reform and opening up, the growth rate was frighteningly low. Later, it was only by selling off state-owned assets and mass layoffs that it recovered. In addition, the mass layoffs in the 1990s left millions of workers unemployed. These workers could only become lumpen proletariat, become thieves, robbers, or commit suicide. This is an ironclad fact. The reason you think China is good is because you have not experienced it yourself, and can only listen to the current ruling class's boasting.
Okay, so where's your proof of this? Reports? Graphs? Photos?
Of course you don't have any because you're just asserting an absolutely, totally ridiculous narrative. The growth rate was frighteningly low?? It was the fastest rate of economic growth in human history! The people became poorer??? China is basically the only place in the world that lifted anyone out of poverty in the last thirty years! Without China, global poverty reduction is a net negative. 800 million people joined the middle class! These are not achievements you can have "in name only". Like, you can't fake the fact that China produced ONE BILLION TONS of steel last year, or that it installed four times as much green energy as the entire G7 combined. These facts require an enormous, highly advanced industrial base, which requires an enormous, highly skilled body of workers.
So what, exactly, is your personal experience of China that contradicts these provable facts then?
Video of the Jasic Movement，https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWMu_MIDqNI
Calculated by the total industrial and agricultural output value, the average annual growth rate from 1966 to 1978 was 8.5%, far exceeding the 6.7% growth rate from 1979 to 1981 after the reform and opening up. There are many economic indicators, such as coal, oil, steel, power generation, machine tools, etc. The growth rate of production is even higher than after the reform. The national fiscal revenue has an average annual growth of 6.9%, far exceeding the average annual negative growth rate of 1.7% from 1979 to 1981. If the economy was "on the verge of collapse" during the "Cultural Revolution", then wouldn't the economy from 1979 to 1981 after the reform be even more "on the verge of collapse"! —— Jiang Weigang "Objectively Look at my country's Economic Development during the Cultural Revolution"
China's workers' movement in the past 10 years
China's growth rate during the Mao era，Red - heavy industry，Yellow - industry，Blue - light industry，Green - agriculture
