As many who have worked with or associated with Chinese aviation over the last 30 years would know the countries attitude to aviation is indeed changing to one of trying to maintain reasonable standards. This also involved change of attitudes towards the ex military pilots who were unsuited to airline style work and move to more western style management of training/checking processes for civil aviation. As with many other areas in China the industry is very punitive if you mess up, you don't get many chances if you stuff up, but that's not just China. Considering the challenging flying in China, with mountainous terrain and terrible weather and smog conditions they do a pretty good job, considering the amount of flying done these days. If you try and pin some cultural BS on their pilots it would just be from a prejudice mind.