According to the historic records: The era of 80s and 90s were the most Disaster, Turbulent, Tragic, Persecute, and Miserable era for the peoples' republic of China, and for the Chinese peoples. On economy: At 1971(Cultural Revolution era), China's GDP was 32 times larger than Taiwanese, and was 11 Times larger than South Korean. At 1991 (Deng's era), China's GDP was just 3 times larger than Taiwanese, and was just 29% more than South Korean. Thanks Chairman Jiang, he fixed the road, plan, and foreign policies, China has successfully became the "WTO" member. And since then China's economies have been growing straightly.