i am curious about whether we have any actual data supporting this. i tried searching for it once recently but i could not find anything apart from news sites making claims without proof.
all the data or evidence we have are mining pools but pools doesn't own hashrate they just link people together.

Nice article here.
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised by these since everything that we use now are all made in China. And yeah, one of the reason is the cheap labor and same goes with bitcoin. While I don't think they'll ban bitcoin mining or at least give up on this as they surely lose good revenue. We knew the fact that China don't easily give up they see they'll benefited, just look at the Scarborough shoal.

i have been around for a couple of years and have read thousands of articles from before that time. i have seen lots of news about China banning bitcoin. if they wanted to ban it they would have done it already not wait for 10+ years and then do it!
the fact is bitcoin has been a very good thing for their economy. from the mining farms to mining pools and bitmain all the money they produce for the electric companies and all the jobs they create is a big economy of its own. the only reason why they shut down exchanges was their illegal activities and the only thing they have ever banned was ICO which are obviously scams and everyone knows that!

The Chinese are relaxing policies regarding Crypto currencies, because they are developing their own government coin and they want to garner

support for their own technology in the future. They cannot ban other tokens and Blockchain technologies, if they are going to issue their own

Crypto currency, it will just look bad. They even went as far as punishing people, if they talk crap about Crypto currencies, so it shows that they

are serious about this new venture.    I will search for the article, where they issue warnings about penalties for people who spoke negative

things about Crypto technologies.

China is known to have a great political management and great leaders that's why their economic status is also great, and there's no way  China won't let an opportunity this big slip through their grasp. Also their president Xi Jinping announced that they would support and will invest for a further research about blockchain and other businesses related to it, one of those is bitcoin.

if the state of China applies the ban I don't think it will have too much influence because we all know that the place for mining is not only in China, there are still other places that can do bitcoin mining and still be able to produce bitcoin, just that it might make prices bitcoin is slightly up because it will be difficult to get bitcoin.

Perhaps they are making good money here that's why they suddenly made a U-turn again.

Just a couple of months ago their government said that it is harming the environment that's why they have plans to shut it down.

But still, we need to be cautious and not celebrate this as kind of 'victory', we still don't know if this is true or not and still baffles me why is the main reason though for relaxing their policy on bitcoin mining.

That's true, China would definitely not ban Bitcoin because the government is aware of the income that all these bitcoin mining companies make and also the number of people whom they have hired to be working with them. Banning Bitcoin will certainly make people not have jobs to do and also bring about huge losses among these big mining companies.

Bitcoin mining is not really related to freedom. In fact you could have a place where Bitcoin is banned but mining is allowed. The miners don't need to use the bitcoin they obtain, except to buy the local fiat to keep operations running. This produces a small but constant demand on that coin helping its position in the markets.

Its a form of export, like exporting electricity, without the wires. Even the countries that hate an uncontrolled coin, would welcome this, if they are smart enough to understand it. China wants its own State crypto coin, and i wouldn't be surprised they restrict bitcoin use to the point it could only be exchanged for the gov approved coin. Or they could still ban it altogether and the miners would need to exchange for an intermediary fiat abroad first.

So no, its not what some people think. If a government actually mentions Bitcoin by name, such as Japan, then yes you can give them some benefit of doubt, but the likes of China probably fear a coin that cannot be "controlled", or its rules changed by political decision at any point later. If Petro was sign, you can expect something just like that over there, not unlike other country backed initiatives, just repeating the same fiat fiasco in digital form.

If the Chinese would have banned mining, that income would have moved to the neighbors. In fact some of those neighbors are already doing it, so they would have loved that.

This is a time limited opportunity, bitcoin mining won't be profitable forever, each day that passes this window will close until its no longer profitable to mine at any price. They would be fools to lose this chance, and after the "bitcoin rush" passes, they are left with electricity production that could be sold or used to growth their economy anyway.

Actually China has already plans to ban bitcoin mining in their country many years ago and some Chinese citizen also hates the bitcoin, the only reason why their president announced the accepting of blockchain technology to their country is just because they have the plans to make their own new digital currency that may change into their fiat and there is also some sayings that their president do this because they want to be open in the possibilities and opportunities that may give of bitcoin mining into their country's economy so they will not ban bitcoin mining in China.
As we can see China is one of the holders of the half of global bitcoin hash around the world so It would be hard to ban bitcoin mining into their country.