Because it has a massive population surplus of people who have not entered the industrialized urban centers where modern economies need talent and where the non

Because it has a massive population surplus of people who have not entered the industrialized urban centers where modern economies need talent and where the non-barely above poverty jobs are for the Chinese. For countries without surplus rural workers making barely above poverty, immigration is required, especially when we need skillsets that aren't growing domestically as fast as we need to fill open positions. China has 380m people making about $4-$10 a day in rural areas dying to migrate to better living conditions. That's more workers in rural areas than the US has people in total: men, women, children, students, retired, etc. These situations aren't comparable. http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2016/09/16/china_is_still_really_poor_112050.html http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2016/09/16/china_is_s... As of 2014, over half of China’s roughly 770 million employed workers were urban workers. The problem is that the other half – almost 380 million people – are employed in rural areas. The urban households aren’t exactly raking it in, but the rural households have not progressed far enough beyond the World Bank’s arbitrary $3.10 to say they have escaped much of anything, and certainly not poverty.