Damn, that's truly terrible and unfair. I'm sure there are ways to illegally emigrate and have a decent life but yea I'm sure they're expensive or otherwise very difficult. I've kind of just accepted this place might be my violent grave because I have no marketable skills and a romanticized deathwish. I hope you find some luck escaping. I will say if I personallt tried to escape I might be more inclined to look somewhere like Mexico etc.rather than China etc., not only convenience and easier to cross unnoticed but for me personally it would be a lot easier to grasp the culture/language.