Yes, really!
Developing countries can only develop if they can find niche industries they to exploit.
The country can start out doing nasty work that is not wanted elsewhere and eventually move up the economic ladder.
And it is because of this “prosperity” that the Yangtze was turned into a toxic sewer, and we probably won’t know the sacrifice in human health for decades if that because of the famous Chinese secrecy.
One does not have to be a spotted owl kissing greenie to deplore this.