[solaarphunk]

Economic superpower perhaps - just take a look at their relative GDP over time.

[kayewiggin]

China has 900M people making less than $400/month, and 600M people making less than $100/month. relative GDP is a joke, go to China to see what most of them are eating (hint: it's unsafe food filled with chemicals, or its mostly carbs) and where these people are living (hint: it's shoddy constructed condos or run down farm houses)

[bugglebeetle]

It’s unclear to me why what you’re describing is specific to China and not also what Americans euphemistically refer to as “fly over states.”

[eunos]

> China has 900M people making less than $400/month

Most of these folks are illiterate oldies that would pass away in a few years anyway.