take world wide steel production as example
Jan- Jun world steel production
China 323.17
Japan 54.57
US 41.00
Russia 32.68
India 32.53
Korea 28.34
Germany 22.74
China produces more steel than the rest of the world combined.
On paper China's GDP is less than twice the size as France's, but Chinese markets, be it automobiles or consumer electronics, or even luxury goods, are many times larger. As reources available for projects & developments go, China's power is virtually unrivaled, not even the US can muster this much money these days. China is building 1000's kms of high-speed railway, close to 100 metro lines in dozens of cities, tens of 1000's express-ways, all at same time. Don't think these is another country that has the financial muscles to do that right now. Currently all world's largest banks by market capitalization are chinese. China is also adding, the equivalent of almost Britain's entire generating capacity, every year. And this year, China has received most orders for ship-building.
Now look at the rescue packages in different countries, clearly China and US are in one class, no one else is even close.
Yes, i admit there is still long way to catch US, but countries like France and Russia (or a certain big neighbor of China) are clearly not in China's class.