The "Chinese Falcon 9" just had perhaps the strangest first flight of a rocket ever, in that it was accidentally launched during full engine static firing test.
Btw, Chinese as a country are sending the most cargo to LEO in the world, if you exclude SpaceX launches. They are willing to break shit, and risk their people, but not like it actually slows down the research, likely the reduced safety actually increases the speed. They just returned samples of moon rock from dark side of the moon too, which has never been done before. I'm just glad we have SpaceX.
unfortunately this method is not good for their citizenry since they're not launching on average in remote areas depending on the partial private company's deals with space port. They may yet succeed if they don't honk off someone with results like this. Weird they're hold down clamps didn't hold though.