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.
Being the biggest economy doesn’t mean much if you have no workers to work.
China, in the last couple of years had to practically double worker wages becausre nobody has been taking jobs.