They have even less regard for the environment. China's soil is polluted and eroded with callous farming practices, their animal life has been nearly exterminat

They have even less regard for the environment. China's soil is polluted and eroded with callous farming practices, their animal life has been nearly exterminated thanks to their primitive beliefs in traditional medicine, their air and water are polluted with heavy metals (and whistleblowers are persecuted). This absolute disregard for the environment is one of the reasons China has become the world's industrial powerhouse in the first place: they literally chose to be a toxic wasteland to win the world's investment money.