This kind of gives me some vague
Shinra vibes... if Shinra was four separate companies and set in a corporate fiefdom southern China and it was set in the 1960s rather than a fantasy modern era reminiscent of the late '90s in certain areas. (I guess it helps that
a Famicom bootleg of Final Fantasy VII was made by Chinese programmers back in the 2000s, then re-localized into English by some other folks on the Internet with better graphics in the early 2010s... but as I tend to often do I digress.)
Let's go over what can and likely will go down in Guangdong over the 1960s: Economic confusion and perpetual poverty and hardship especially for the disadvantaged locals, the potential for a large-scale surveillance scheme, new consumer goods galore, omnipresent corruption in all areas of society, racketeering street gangs, relocation into new drab housing in the name of resource exploitation, largely unchecked police brutality...
And then, naturally, comes the comparisons and parallels with dystopian, cyberpunk, and dystopian cyberpunk stories like
Blade Runner and
Snatcher but with a larger focus on the aesthetics and the settings and without all the moral questions as to what measure a non-human is, and with more political and economic freedom for corporations than meets the eye. What also shouldn't be discounted is the drawings of said parallels with the general direction as to how things in general are developing IOTL... but of course, this isn't the thread to talk about such things, thus I will simply leave it at that.