Yes. Well-meaning regulation and a licensing raj come at the cost of economic growth, which is what will enable China to eventually afford the safeguards richer countries can take for granted. For unrelated reasons, I've been reading for the past few days through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obsolete_occupations - there are some really fascinating entries, but what's equally fascinating is how the most awful revolting horrifying British or American occupations like gong farmer or breaker boy or hurrier (and even some of the not-so-bad occupations like Herb Strewer or linkboy or ice man or leech collector or knocker-up) were made 'obsolete' by increased economic growth, even in cases like knocker-up where one might naively think it was actually technology we can thank (because mechanical clocks certainly existed and could've been used to replace the knocker-up, it's just the knocker-up was cheaper).