This report (or lack of) came as little surprise to me:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6911784.stm
Basically, there is environmental research going on in China. It's not that the Chinese government don't know about things like all the smog and desert dust killing people and all the CO2 causing global warming and they do commit a pretty tidy sum towards researching it (although a big chunk is dedicated to researching weather modification). It's just that they don't like the results and they can't admit to having an environmentally unsustainable development policy. So they bury the bad news, pretend it doesn't exist and carry on regardless (as opposed to the western approach which is to at least pay it lip service and then carry on). Just goes to show that their policy on expression and access to information applies to science as well as everything else.
PS foreign scientists are very, very rarely allowed to do any atmospheric sampling in China, just in case you were wondering. They keep it staunchly in-house.
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