China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network Reporter Zhu Caiyun) China’s sustainable development level is constantly improving. According to the China Sustainability Assessment Report (2024) released in Beijing a few days ago, China’s Sustainability Composite Index has grown steadily for seven consecutive years, with a cumulative increase of 47.8%. The five individual indices of economic development, social and people’s livelihood, resources and environment, consumption and emissions, and governance and protection generally maintained an upward trend.
On December 19, the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, the Earth Institute of Columbia University and Lenovo Group jointly held the “China Sustainable Development Seminar and the New Book Launch of the China Sustainable Development Evaluation Report (2024)”.
Experts at the meeting said that the sustainable development index evaluation system established in this book fully implements the new development concept and fully reflects the goals and requirements of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and has received wide attention from all walks of life. In the next step, we should improve the evaluation index system according to the changes in the domestic and international situation, keep pace with the times, continue to enrich research in the fields of green and low-carbon transformation, carbon market, green finance, and ESG, continuously enhance the authority of research, and enhance China’s international influence in the field of sustainable development.
In view of the current situation that China is still facing the difficulty of coordinating the three systems of economy, society and environment, and there is still a large gap in the level of sustainable development capacity between regions, the above report suggests that in the future, it is still necessary to promote the modernization of sustainable development with the goal of high-quality economic development, a society of common prosperity for all people, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.
