China doesn’t have a national minimum wage, but minimum wage is delegated to the local level there and definitely exists in every single province. Just echoing what the other user said, literally everything you said here is easily disprovable. https://www.china-briefing.com/news/minimum-wages-China/
Not really content related, but why does the author keep referring to the NYT as The Times and “former” New York Times? Have they begun a name change process or something?
I legit got this notification on my phone while reading this comment. I do the same and will continue to do the same.