On the afternoon of 9 October 2019, the mid-term expert discussion of the project "Study on Local Evaluation and Prospects of the United Nations SDGs", organized by the Institute of Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua Univeristy (TUSDG), was held in Room 302 of the School of Public Policy & Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University. Professor Zhu Xufeng, Project Leader, Executive Director of TUSDG and Associate Dean of SPPM, chaired the meeting. Li Nan, Director of Policy Programmes and Wu Qiong, Senior Project Specialist of WWF-Switzerland Beijing Office; Zhang Yongsheng, Deputy Director of the Department of Development Strategies and Regional Economy Research of Development Research Centre of the State Council; Wang Dong, Director of UNDP SDG Localisation Project and Policy Expert; Chen Shaofeng, Chief Scientist of the Technical Report of the China Sustainable Development Strategy Report, Institute of Sustainable Development Strategy of the Institute of Science Development Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dong Zhanfeng, Researcher, Department of Environmental Policy of Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP), and members of the group, Li Yuanbo and Wang Hongshuai, attended the meeting.
Scene of the expert validation meeting
Li Nan, Director of Policy Programmes of WWF Switzerland Beijing Office, firstly introduced the background of the project, Zhu Xufeng, the project leader, and Wang Hongshuai, a member of the project team, outlined the research overview and progress of the study, and the participating experts fully affirmed the progress of the project, and put forward valuable suggestions for the next stage of the project, such as the research paradigm, the angle of entry of the problem, and the evaluation system of indicators of the United Nations SDGs. They also put forward valuable suggestions on the research paradigm, the angle of entry and the evaluation system of indicators for the SDGs, which will provide important support for the next stage of the project.
Project Profile of the Local Evaluation and Prospective Studies of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
In September 2015, at a historic United Nations summit, world leaders adopted the Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which came into effect on 1 January 2016, covering 17 SDGs. China attaches great importance to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and has incorporated the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into its 13th Five-Year Plan, realising the organic integration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the country's medium- and long-term development plans.
Based on the full consultation between WWF-Switzerland Beijing and TUSDG are collaborating on a project entitled "Local Evaluation and Prospective Study of the SDGs", which aims to study the coordination between China and the implementation of the SDGs, as well as the challenges of localized implementation of the SDGs in China.
