In the heyday of state control, the Chinese had their employment, housing, health care, food rations and travel all micromanaged by bureaucrats, and their lives were open books.

• 在中央集权的全盛时期，中国民众的就业，住房，医疗，食品定额与旅行都被官僚机构微观调控，可见当时人们的生活完全暴露在政府的眼中。