Will China eventually have urbanization to the degree that developed countries have? I hope the course of development that they take is different from that of first world countries. The current urban-rural divide in the West is possible because of things like hyper-mechanised farming practices using tons of synthetic products (which is not going to be sustainable forever) and tropical goods being produced by debt-trapped third world countries forced to grow cash crops. Meanwhile the productivity of urban centres has a lot of cruft to it with labour being done for corporations to make products that sometimes not useful and sometimes actively harmful.

I think China can still safely urbanise a lot more. But a lot of alarm-sounding about the population decline is done on the assumption that there is only one path of national development and that developing countries in the end should look how developed countries look like today which is just straight up impossible owing to the fact that the divide between imperialist and imperialised countries is the foundation of the current world order.