This might be right, depending on the on which side you are looking. The big companies will surely do anything to have access or even control of a market with more than 1 billion possible buyers.

On the other hand, China has done some incredible developement in the last decade and it is still developing. Granting the freedome to make yourself a company is just the other way the communism is working, where everything should be everybody's. These companies want's to make their way before some of these 1 billion souls will make them some competition.