You overlook the CAUSE which is the FAILURE of the
Chinese ruling Communst Party to create basic functioning
infrastructure , starting in 1949, when they took power.
Mao Zedong and his idiotic Dictatorship ruined China and caused
over 30 million to starve to death in the 60's
because of his inept incompetance.
Their leaders did not even know how to build a suspension
bridge or a working sytem of highways across China. China is
about the same size as the USA and smaller than Canada.
So the excuse " China is too big" is absurd. A system of ROADS,
BRIDGES, TELEPHONE POLES, and the delivery of ELECTRICITY
was already in place in the USA and Europe by 1948. The mentality
in China was " Why build a road out there, those peasants are farmers "
No respect for their own people. By comparison ,RADIO was available
in the smallest villages in Canada and the USA by the 1920's and 1930's
REFGERATION and AUTOMOBILES were in use by the 1920's
because the government had built ROADS all over the US and Canada.
By the 1950's almost every home even in small US and Canadian
villages had TV sets because the government had put in ELECTRICITY
and the delivery of goods and services were available all across the
country to all, even farmers and so called "peasants". China was and IS
and elitist society. All that villages needed was a ROAD, a BRIDGE, some
ELECTRICITY and indoor toilets, sanitation, and telephones and a way
for people to get in and out. That was the responsibility of the Government.
Blaming the villagers is typical of Chinese thinking.