You could say Venezuela instead of China, and by the way, people in communist countries never try to create progress voluntarily, government always makes them to do it (or at least to try) by force, and force is used because this system takes away the desire of going ahead from a man by making them work for the "people" instead for themselve. No man in earth will sacrify his own dreams and desires voluntarily because of the "people" (which tend to be the totalitarian government), not even the most communist man. Progress will always be present when the government is limited enough to allow each person inside the country to create their own reality, whatever it is, and this is where the development comes from.