It's a very similar story, actually: as China industrialized, it has very similarly realized that curtailing air pollution is an extremely important issue with benefits that outweigh costs.

It has continually tightened standards and its overall air quality is improving (although it still has notable areas where more improvement is needed)

https://enviliance.com/regions/east-asia/cn/cn-air/cn-air-ac...

https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-battle-against-air-pollution...