This is a great post of analyzing the China economic status and

long term growth trend.  People seem to believe the say that China 1980 per capita GDP was US$130, and now ~$8300. When the materialized goods produced in China are considered in the past and now, the conclusion is readily arrived that the China economic scale has been underestimated for long time.

A reserve estimate of China 2016 GDP was $40 trillions - in other words, China 2016 per capita GDP was ~$29000, that is 3.5 times higher that the official figure.