In Xi Jinping's China, is Chairman Mao back?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Hu's 10 years as leader saw social security and healthcare spending expand roughly fivefold.
58% : "Indeed, at the same time as deriding an isolationist China, Western critics attack it for being more active internationally.Xi's Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilisation Initiative are presented, when mentioned at all, as threats.
52% : Xi has promoted a volunteering culture, exhorting students to spend their holidays in poorer rural regions working on development projects, and twinned rich areas with poor ones with legal obligations for the former to invest in the latter.
45% : The negative impact of marketisation on workers' rights was recognised by the Hu government, and these were significantly strengthened by the Labour Contract Law of 2007.

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