User blog comment:Imperium Guy/Is China developing or Developed?/@comment-82.139.5.13-20111016094123/@comment-4206034-20111016103854

If you compare that to India's, there is not much of a difference. Even India has 2 global cities and the 3rd largest army in the world. India is planning to launch their own manned mission and have launched the Chandrayan probe which detected water on the moon. India is not classified as developed and neither would China, because even though they have all that, their rural population is too great to let China quality. You should read the post by a guy called Lordgannon here.