三七开定论 sān qī kāi dìng lùn

DEFINITIONS

  1. thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong

CHARACTERS

三 sān three
七 qī seven
开 kāi open; initiate, begin, start
定 dìng decide, settle, fix
论 lùn debate; discuss; discourse