The thing is the teachers with real degrees are far smaller in number than those with forged or no degrees at all.

I don't agree with this...with all due respect. May have been true in the past at some point, but don't think it has been true for quite a while.
The number of teachers with Education degrees and real teaching accreditation is a small number, but as far as I can tell the overwhelming majority of those currently working in China have some kind of college degree. It's just gotten too hard to work without one.

But then, I love Suzhou (not sure how that got into this discussion...?). Someone on here somewhere put it down as "backpacker central"; I would submit that person has no real idea what they're talking about.
But that's just me. ;-{)