If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.
You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.
Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.
To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.
Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.