[AngweeMan]

It was Deng Xiaoping that decisively brought China out from the rut. But Xi has successfully removed Deng's achievement... Nevertheless good that the Chinese get to enjoy live after so many decades of suffering.

Deng opened up economy and pretty much all auto pilot from there. Jiang and Hu were pretty useless, full of corruption and imbalance within. Xi at least on surface, is trying to correct much of these.
ps. I'm not a Winnie fanboy and please don't bother replying me if somewhere in recent history your butt got screwed by a commie and you want to shill hatred.