Ni Hao,... and welcome to the forum Justgo,
I have been to China a number of times (Ningbo, Pudong and Nantong) including several months in a Dockyard in Shanghai. Of course I realise that this is only a very small part of a huge country. I also managed a shipboard Abalone production facility with a Chinese crew for five years.
China will be a great country eventually, but they have many real problems, both small and large, that must be fixed before they will be accepted as equals (or better), by the majority of the free* world.
The Chinese people whom I have known are little different to anyone else, having all the same good points and bad.
* Yes, I know,... we are not truly "free" either, but we do have many basic freedoms that the Chinese people do not.