>>58429 (OP)
I've never seen a more stark example of a shill post.
They have a metropolitan areas where this is true. Their big cities are modern marvels, but as soon as you step into a suburb, you take a step 30 years back in time (which still isn't horrible, holding on par with late-20th century western countries). But then step outside these areas, rural China is still an 18th century agrarian hellscape where basic things like electricity, running water, and sewage/waste handling aren't even certainties.
I saw a documentary of sorts on YT some time back. It was set in what used to be a pretty big city built as part of Mao's Great Leap Forward or whatever. At it's peak, it was a couple million people or something. 60 or 80 miles outside what is still one of their tech/manufacturing hubs. For 1960s China, it looked pretty alright, even on par with western cities of the day. Skyscrapers. Commie beehives. Well-kept roads with public transportation. Doctors, hospitals. Restaurants. I think they had their own TV and radio stations. The works. A modern (for the day) city sprung up in the middle of a jungle.
That city's still there. Pop. >1M people. Officially, it doesn't exist. That is, the government considers it abandoned. The jungle has reclaimed the outer portions of the city, so all the people there are concentrated in the center. There's one road in and out. There's a single bus stop at the edge of town for commuters. Deliveries from outside go to only one place (near the bus stop), where they make a handoff to locals. It's esentially a new Kowloon, with layer upon layer of ad-hoc construction, where a person can be born, live their entire life, and die all within a one-eigth-mile circle drawn around where they plopped out of their mother's cunt.
There's still restaurants and doctors and a makeshift hospital and clothing shops and grocery stores and all the rest. You can wander down a tunnel or an alley or hop across three roofs to find a cell phone store or a mechanic to fix your scooter or someone to sell you a new pair of pants.
This is a city, mind you. One that was established 60 years ago, started to decline 40 years ago, and is still hanging on. You could even say it's doing alright for what it is. These people all seem content; they don't really want for anything, I guess. It's not like they're in prison or a gulag or something. It's just what they know. All they know.
But to call it a baseline for a new, high-tech future? These are people on the outskirts of this new, high-tech future. What about truly rural china? There's documentaries of that, too.