Specifically when put into context with the worse times for the environment in China, and the general trend since then.
China is currently running the largest and most successful de-desertification project in human history (to hold back the Gobi desert) . From wiki:
The “Green Wall of China” is a high-profile example of one method that has been finding success in this battle with desertification.[according to whom?]. This wall is a much larger-scale version of what American farmers did in the 1930s to stop the great Midwest dust bowl. This plan was proposed in the late 1970s, and has become a major ecological engineering project that is not predicted to end until the year 2055. According to Chinese reports, there have been nearly 66 billion trees planted in China’s great green wall.[66] The green wall of China has decreased desert land in China by an annual average of 1,980 square km.[67] The frequency of sandstorms nationwide have fallen 20% due to the green wall.[68] Due to the success that China has been finding in stopping the spread of desertification, plans are currently be made in Africa to start a “wall” along the borders of the Sahara desert as well to be financed by the United Nations Global Environment Facility trust.[69]
They’re also reducing emissions and far ahead of schedule on climate change goals, and all this despite being the factory for most of the world’s consumer goods:
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