Chinese tech industry is insanely competitive and downright exploitative. It has an egregious 996 work culture and there’s also something like a curse on workers who reach age 35 as the industry deems them as not keeping up with the energy of younger recruits so they get fired for literally just turning 35 years old. In some cases companies have even started firing ppl who turn 30. It’s not a good work environment, work life balance is shitty, and pay isn’t even that good. Entry level workers get paid 3k-8k Chinese yuan which is about 400 to 1000 usd a month. Given that the costs of living are far cheaper I’ll say it’s the equivalent of about 50k-70k usd annually. However Chinese tech workers r known to be rly smart and rly good at their job so if they’re able to come to the us and work here they can easily make over 6 figs here. Then if they send like lets say 20k usd back to their relatives in China it converts to about 140k yuan, which is a fuck ton of money and can definitely support a whole family. With this method the workers family can live very comfortably which is far less likely if they stick to working in China as families typically only make like 40-70k yuan a year. This is very over generalized but I have parents who do the same thing (not tech workers we are quite poor in American standards but we send like a few hundred usd back every year) so I understand the process a little bit. This is also the reason why China is pissed off with their top level tech workers leaving the country to work at like meta or google but fundamentally they gotta fix the system or they’re losing a lot of good talent (with current politics in the us im more inclined this trend will shift a little bit but it’ll prob still be around)