China released on Sept 19 its national plan for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations Headquarter in New York.
The national plan was released by Premier Li Keqiang when he chaired a roundtable on the Sustainable Development Goals.
The plan consists of five parts, including China’s achievements and experience on implementing the Millennium Development Goals, and the challenges and opportunities, guiding principles, roadmap and detailed plans of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.
As the first national plan that specifies various domains and goal-oriented concrete measures, the plan comprehensively expounds China’s development policy and China’s efforts to help other developing countries to forge ahead the process of global implementation.
In September last year, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for people, the planet, peace, prosperity and partnership.
Premier Li said at the roundtable that it is the ultimate goal of China’s modernization to have some 1.3 billion people to live a well-off life.
In the past 15 years, China has been leading the global efforts to realize the UN Millennium Development Goals by lifting nearly 400 million people out of poverty, reducing the mortality of children under five years old by two thirds and that of pregnant women by three fourths, said Premier Li. China has weaved the largest web of social security and elderly care in the world, Premier Li added.
Meanwhile, China has already put the agenda into its national development plans, aiming to lift all the poor population by the current standards out of poverty by 2020, ten years ahead of schedule for realizing the goal of poverty- and hunger-alleviation, women and children care and housing security, said the Premier.
China also aims to achieve goals in other major areas including agriculture, health, education and economic growth by 2030, Premier Li said.
