Personally, I don't think it's a talent issue, it's driven by the environment! There is absolutely no shortage of talent in China, but there is just no way to train them properly for so many reasons, the most important being that the sport is not popular and burns money. Every country has its own specialty sports: diving, table tennis, weightlifting in China, for example, have almost no competitors. It may win the occasional silver medal, but it's very rare. Any world champion is a natural, and then there's South Korean archery, for example, which is basically the whole package. It takes generations of athletes over a long period of time for a sport to flourish in a country.
First, China certainly has extremely talented skaters, but first of all, in a context like China's, you probably won't touch figure skating for the rest of your life, so naturally you won't find talent. Secondly, you have to be enthusiastic and work hard, even if you lack the guidance of experienced seniors, you will practice harder than others. On the contrary, in some dominant countries, their coaches are athletes who have won gold medals. They have more natural experience and can get twice the result with half the effort when training their athletes. If we send our athletes to study abroad, can others give everything to each other, people are selfish.
Two, we improve little by little, persistence brings hope. When we have enough accumulation, there will be masters. There must be geniuses, but the importance of skating can't be compared with table tennis and diving, so the program has limited investment and different priorities. And the lack of popularity of skating makes it hard to find new good talent, resulting in no next generation of players to continue and a big burden on the old players.
Third, skating is recognized as a particularly difficult sport to learn, with a training cycle of 8-12 years. China's national team style makes for poorly autonomous athletes, not players fit for self-monitoring. I think this is very important for top skaters. Ice sports are not popular. It's hard to find skating rinks in southern cities. Maybe there is a talent for skating, but maybe they were born in a place where snow sports are not popular, so they die in the stable, not by a thousand miles.