On the afternoon of 13 December 2019, the expert validation meeting of the project "Study on Local Evaluation and Prospects of the SDGs", hosted by the Institute of Sustainable Development Goals (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, while Li Nan, Director of Policy Programmes and Wu Qiong, Senior Programmes Specialist of WWF-Switzerland Beijing Office, Wan Yang, Assistant Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) China, Chen Ying, Researcher of the Institute of Urban and Environment of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and deputy director of Sustainable Development Research Centre of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Jin Min, professor of Department of Environmental Economics and Management, School of Ecology & Environment, Renmin University of China; Xiang Wei, head of Comprehensive Division of Department of Development Planning, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC); Du Zheng, secretary-general of the Committee on Sustainable Cities and Communities of the China Association for the Promotion of International Economic & Technical Cooperation (CAPC); and members of the research team, Li Yuanbo and Wang Hongshuai.
The scene of the meeting
Zhu Xufeng, the project leader, firstly introduced the background of the project, while Wang Hongshuai and Li Yuanbo, members of the project team, outlined the research overview and milestone progress. The participating experts fully affirmed the milestones of the study and said that the findings of the report are very informative for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the local level in China. At the same time, the experts also gave valuable advice to the group from their own areas of expertise on community development, ecosystems, and combining data language and practice, and discussed the content release and format of the report for the next step of the study.
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.
