For every example you can find where state created something there are countless examples where the private sector created something else if not better, eg. cars, electric grid, gas/oil drilling, penicillin and pharmaceutical industry. And no China is not a good example of a state run country, for all practical purposes it's a capitalistic country except when it comes to societal issues. Soviet Union is what I think you had in mind but I guess that example stopped being so "glaring" when communism brought its demise.