China s National Plan on Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development September 2016 Table of Contents Preamble I Achievements and Experience in China s Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals 1 Major Achievements 2 Development Experience II Opportunities and Challenges in China Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development III GuidingThoughtsandGeneralPrinciplesforChina s Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1 Guiding Thoughts 2 General Principles IV Overall Approaches for China s Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1 Synergy of Strategies 2 Institutional Guarantee 3 Social Mobilization 4 Resource Input 5 Risk Management 6 International Cooperation 7 Oversight and Review V Implementation Plan for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals 1 Preamble TheUnitedNationsSustainableDevelopmentSummitwas successfully held in September 2015 The Summit adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which points out the direction and provides the blueprint for national development of all countries and international development cooperation in the next 15 years Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the central task in the international development endeavor While facing a sluggish world economic recovery widening development gap between the North and the South the international community is also confronted with challenges like refugee crisis terrorism public health threats and the climate change All countries should work together to match words with deeds and translate commitment into reality by earnestly implementing the 2030 Agenda jointly embarking on the path of equitable open all round innovation driven and sustainable development and improving the well being of mankind As the largest developing country in the world China has always given top priority to development China attaches great importance to the 2030 Agenda The 13th Five Year Plan was reviewed and approved by the Fourth Session of the 12th National People s Congress in March 2016 linking the 2030 Agenda with domestic mid and long term development strategies Right now implementation of the 2030 Agenda is in full swing in China To guide and advance the implementation efforts China formulates this China s National Plan on Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development hereinafter referred to as National Plan Drawing on the achievements and experience of China s development theNationalPlananalyzeschallengesandopportunitiesin implementing the 2030 agenda lays out the guiding thoughts general principles and approaches for the implementation as well as specific plans for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals SDG and 169 targets The National Plan will be updated in light of the developments in due course In the coming years China will earnestly fulfill the tasks in the National Plan under the guidance of the people centred development concept featuring innovative coordinated green open and shared development It will work with other countries in seeking mutual benefit win win cooperation and common development and make unremitting 2 efforts for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and realization of the dreams of people across the world 3 I Achievements and Experience in China s Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals 1 Major Achievements The Third Plenary Session of the 11th the Communist Party of China CPC Central Committee in December 1978 opened a new historic period of reform and opening up which was a monumental strategic choice that has shaped contemporary China an inexhaustible source of vitality for national development and progress and the only path toward socialism with Chinese characteristics and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation Reform and opening up has transformed China from a highly centrally planned economy to a dynamic socialist market economy and from a closed or semi closed society to an all round open society China s comprehensive national strength has reached a new level and its people are generally living in a moderately well off society During the great endeavor of reform and opening up China has made remarkable progress toward the Millennium Development Goals MDG in the first 15 years of the new century With its fast growing economy and outstanding achievements in agriculture and poverty reduction China s Gross Domestic Product GDP had increased from RMB 10 trillion in 2000 to 68 55 trillion in 2015 making it the second largest economy in the world since 2010 Production of major agricultural products such as grains vegetables and meat grew steadily with enhanced comprehensive agricultural productivity China s population living in poverty dropped from 689 million in 1990 to 57 million in 2015 making a great contribution to the global cause of poverty reduction Tremendous social progress has been achieved The nine year free compulsory education has been universalized and illi