China is vast country, but also a country where there's lot of diverse landscapes which affect everything in the country, from population dispersal to industrialization.
The problem in China is that only the eastern part of the country has land that is suitable for industrial development, as it mostly composed of lowlands and it is where the ports are. That can not be said about the central part and the western part of the country, where the landscape is dominates by deserts, semi-arid regions, high and massive mountain ranges including the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. The geography of the terrain simply doesn't allow any particular development in those parts, thus the country is very limited where it can grow and develop.
