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I should add the obvious point that's China's economic development (including the Mao period, when the population doubled from 300 to 600 million and life expectancy went from the late 20s to around 63) has seen the largest increase in living standards and reductions in poverty in all of human history. They are almost single handedly responsible for any reductions in global poverty since the Neoliberal Counterrevolution
The vast majority of Chinese people seem to have an, overall, very positive view of the achievements of the government, even if the reforms were often violent and there has been labour and radical maoist opposition.