A reminder of the unparalleled advances in public health made by communist states. Even if every absurd fabrication that the anti-communist propagandists like to parrot about the millions supposedly killed by Stalin, Mao, etc. was true, those numbers would pale in comparison to the number of lives they saved, the hundreds of millions of life spans extended by entire decades. And if you want the perfect control sample of what it looks like when you start with nearly identical conditions but don't have communist central planning, look at India.
Didn't know that the expectancy rate in China was that bad in the 1800s. Medieval peasant levels.
personally i don't want to live that long.. I'm in my 4th decade and if it were my last i wouldn't be upset about it
Chinese call the period from approx. 1850 to 1949 the century of humiliation for many good reasons.
The meme isn't completely wrong, CPC transformed China.