Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping had major impacts on China during their rule. Document 8’s excerpt discusses the economically poor areas and China’s improving coastal areas. Mao isolated ethnic minorities, and restricted free flow of labor and capital. His policies kept his people poor and doubled the regional income disparities. Document 2 mentions the terrible failure of the Great Leap Forward. The Great Leap Forward, during Mao’s rule, made his people very unhappy and was a big embarrassment for Shanghai. The farming turned bad and backyard industries turned to low-quality, useless goods. China’s people waited in long line wanted to get exit permits to leave because of this collapse. While Xiaoping was in rule, coastal cities’ foreign investment
