I find that these articles are more to attract clicks than to be something real.
"Analysts from the research institute Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality found that 91% of officials convicted of corruption within 10 years after Xi Jinping took office as Chairman of the People's Republic of China (2013) were among the 1%. richest people in China.This is an infographic for the distribution of 16 mining pools. If we take the facts that Bitcoin mining is banned in China, we will find that mining from unknown pools represents about 1.3% and therefore still does not constitute a large percentage of mining pools. The percentage was greater than 30% in the past.
If we say that what is meant by mining is individual mining, I do not think that the citizen will risk that because of the noise generated by these devices and the consumption of electricity, and if that were the case, the percentage would still be low.