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Are there homeless in China? Yes
Is there extreme poverty in China? Yes
One thing that western people rarely truly understand is that there are also workers putting in 70+ hour weeks living in company forms under conditions so bad it makes American prisons seem reasonable, and not actually getting ahead with money because they are sending it all to their family in the countryside just to keep them fed.
There are also more than a hundred million Chinese people who don't even have running water.
They also have tens of million people living rich in luxury apartments driving luxury cars with servants to do everything.
I'm sorry, did you say China or the US?
Funny, and partially accurate.
The US has fewer people living in the type of poverty that China has, they take some of their poverty to the extreme.
There are millions living in a tin and brick slums with no running water or access to toilets in the middle of nowhere, Or living 12 people to a single bedroom in literal stacked cages in big cities.
I'd rather be homeless in the US, by quite a significant margin.