Genesis
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Due to its large population and culture tendencies, China is not an immigration nation. Basically, Chinese expect people who lives in China to behave like Chinese, instead of "insert random nationality" people who happen to take residence in China. Frankly, due to the population pressure, I don't really see China becoming an immigration nation in the near future except to individuals with outstanding qualification (high technical skills, etc)
Beijing does have a lot of air pollution. It is a mega metroplex with with more than 20 million population and it is surrounded on three sides by mountain, so when bad weather, especially a low pressure front hits, it can trap quite a bit smog there, but it is not really worse than other mega cities, such as Delhi, or London when England had its industry.
And Beijing's pollution doesn't really come from industry. Industrial pollution affects both air and water, but you don't really hear media talking about water pollution in Beijing. This is because it is a political and commercial city, not an industrial city. Vast majority of Beijing's pollution comes from personal vehicles. This is why a gradual transition to electric vehicle is so important for Beijing.
First China will have 29% of the post secondary educated population at around 2020, so technical people could still come, but it's hardly a need. A lot of the benefits to Taiwan nationals are being stripped, some say it will completely be dropped soon, as our grads are just flat out better at this point.
China could very well become a immigration country for low level jobs, I'm not sure if you know, but low level employees are really dropping in China, it is not a big problem now, but the count down has began.
But if there's one thing that I'm not worried is change, China will adapt.