In reality, they just fooled everyone into thinking they were really that important to Bitcoin -- it was one big theater show. It was insane how they were trolling the entire markets there with daily volumes of 2-4 million traded coins per exchange (referring to Huobi, OKCoin, BTCChina). I am glad that the market gets dominated by western exchanges again. Thank you PBOC.
I agree with that
In fact, this is what I wanted to write myself, namely, that they tricked us into thinking that they were somehow important with their insane volumes. To be honest, this is what I claimed myself back then giving the numbers of their daily trading volumes which had been by far exceeding those of the rest of the pack (Bitstamp, Btc-e, Bitfinex, to name a few). It turned out that their real volumes were a lot less (if not to say orders less). If things were like that with Bitcoin mining, China would be completely out the picture