China is aging fast, due to their one child policy which is now pretty much irreversible, and their environmental problems are huge. China is an environmental Cherynobl waiting to happen.
Give it ten years and see where it is.
China is on target to be the world’s biggest economy in 10 years or less. I never said life in China is perfect. You are absolutely right about lack of environmental protections. Pollution is awful in industrial cities.
But China will soon be the world’s largest economy in the world. China was the worlds biggest economy for over thousand years in history, and it will again occupy that spot.