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This is about specific sites' abnormally high methane pollution, and China is in the data set but does not have as many "super-emitters" according to this. Here's an example where China's listed in the linked Sky article:
However, they go on to rank the countries in the article as such:
So the answer is simply that China, along with the EU, does not have as many "super-emitters" to worry about. Other regions do, and that means they can target those sites specifically to reduce their methane emissions now that the data clearly highlights them.