SDGs in China

In 2015, President Xi Jinping represented China at the United Nations General Assembly and voted to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and promote the SDGs as a national policy.

China is one of the first countries to propose and implement a sustainable development strategy.

China is the first major country in the world to launch the National Plan for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

China is the first developing country to complete the poverty reduction task of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the first developing country to complete the poverty reduction task of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2030.

On September 22, 2020, President Xi Jinping announced at the 75th United Nations General Assembly that China would establish the United Nations Global Geographic Information Knowledge and Innovation Center and the International Research Center for Sustainable Development Big Data to implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Provide Chinese solutions, contribute Chinese experience, create Chinese mechanisms, and absorb international resources.

President Xi Jinping clearly pointed out that the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is “one point of deployment and nine points of implementation.” The 2030 Agenda is consistent with China’s goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and realizing the “Chinese Dream” of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and is consistent with the concept of promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.