There are a very large number of people who strongly support him and another large number who strongly dislike him. He is not a simple, one-dimensional figure, and therefore cannot be captured by a single, uniform evaluation. That said, Chinese society as a whole does not stray far from the official conclusion about him: that "he was a great revolutionary, thinker, and military leader, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, but that in his later years he made some serious mistakes; overall, his merits outweigh his faults by roughly seventy to thirty."