From Picture China:
The official party line is that 70% of what Mao Zedong did was right and 30% was wrong. This pretty much sums up the ambiguity with which most modern Chinese see their often criticized former leader. His detractors condemn him as a mass-murderer who was responsible for the deaths of millions of people in the wake of the disastrous reforms of the Cultural Revolution. His supporters point out that during his tenure he dramatically increased the living standards for most Chinese and send the country on its way to becoming a modern nation. Either way you look at it is impossible to deny that the China that we see today was at least in part shaped by his hand.
