No, Chinese soccer isn't going anywhere because of a rampant corruption in the system and a $15 billion soccer gambling industry fixing matches.
In Chinese soccer, players aren't selected based on merits, rather by the player's connections and bribes. This is why the Chinese Messi who couldn't afford to pay the bribe to advance to the highschool soccer career is farming in the countryside, while the nephew of China's communist party officials made the national squad who then humiliates China by losing to everyone else.
So as long as the corruption is rampant in China, don't expect a miracle. The only way that China could go to the World Cup is by hosting it and get the host's ticket.
Not true, China has a massive professional soccer league, but haunted by massive corruption and match-fixing by multi-billion dollar gambling industry.