It is interesting you bring up the Chinese. They will have major demographic problems becoming apparent any minute now due to their male-female imbalance. They have a huge, 8 figure cohort of males that will not have an opportunity for marriage. I figure there is a huge burgeoning market for a) prostitutes and b) robotic consorts of some sort.
Over the longer haul, they will have difficulty maintaining population levels as their society grows older.
In gaming, the Chineese are well known for “farming” which is playing to obtain online “gold” in bames then sold in the real world to gamers who then take and use it back in their games for buying online ingame items. It’s huge business.
So the Chinese are well versed in the ‘recreational’ side of the ‘cyberworld’ already. With their manufacturing capacity, when the tech gets there for robotics, they will indeed ‘solve’ their sex imbalance with hardware. If that tech gets to the prior VR discussion level, their govt WILL institute a plan to migrate people into the virtual world and have an industrial accident with a few hundred million.
The Chinese will simply use a more old-fashioned method to solve their sex imbalance problem: take the women from elsewhere.