User blog comment:Imperium Guy/Is China developing or Developed?/@comment-32656-20111009233501

China's status on this is really not in question, so long as you have the sense to look beyond their overall numbers. Their economic data may be high, but when you factor in the billion people, that's no longer the case. Their GDP is massive overall, for instance, but is about 4,900 per capita. To put that into perspective, the highest, Luxembourg, is at about 109,000, and the USA is at about 47,000.

Even past that, most of the Chinese population is simple and poor rural peasants, as has always been the case.