When I was in my twenties, I didn’t really buy stuff and apartments in Asia are mostly fully furnished. All my
stuff fitted in a 32kg luggage until 2022 or so.
Most Chinese apartments come furnished, at least in Beijing. You have to negotiate with the landlord if you want to use your own furniture. I’ve never had an apartment in Beijing that didn’t have a washer machine. No dryer of course, and these are cheap washer machines, you could buy one yourself for 1k RMB or so, well 20 years ago you could.