China is absolutely living in the future by every measure you can think of. Robots are common place, there's high speed rail everywhere, energy production is rapidly shifting to renewables and nuclear. Most vehicles are now electric. These are all the things we were promised that we'd see in the world of tomorrow, and that's where China is at.

Highly disagree with this.

Even if you ignore the PRC's primary materialist / world-historic acheivement over the last few decades (lifting more people out of poverty than any country in history), then you still have futuristic / sci-fi things like:

• The PRC's green energy revolution.

ELECTRICITY MIX (PERCENTAGE)
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2010:  [████████████████████████] 61% Coal  |  39% Clean
2025:  [████████████████] 32% Coal           |  68% Clean
2030:  [████████████] ~25% Coal (target)     |  75% Clean (target)
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• Rapid development of fusion power.
• Space missions like a planned moon landing possibly as soon as the 2030s, and planned mars landings for 2040s.

These are star trek / bucky fuller level ideas.