Beijing, November 20 (IANS). The “Sustainable Development Blue Book: Sustainable Development Assessment Report in China (2024)” was released at the theme side event of “China’s Sustainable Development Implementation Towards Carbon Neutrality” held at the China Pavilion of the Baku Climate Conference.
The Blue Book, edited by the China Center for International Economic Exchanges and the Earth Institute of Columbia University in the United States, presents a comprehensive index of sustainable development in China in 2024 and an assessment of sustainable development outcomes in China’s provinces, autonomous regions, union territories and major cities. Issued.
According to this Blue Book, since the beginning of the assessment, China’s comprehensive sustainable development index has increased for seven consecutive years, with an overall growth rate of 46.8 percent. In China, there has been an increase in indices like economic development, social livelihood, resources and environment, consumption and emissions and governance and conservation.
The urban pattern is gradually being established in China, which effectively supports the green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society and high-quality development. After comprehensive assessment, cities like Chuhai, Tsingtao, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Changsha and Hefei in China have good comprehensive potential for sustainable development.
According to this Blue Book, in the future, China will accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development to reach carbon peak and carbon neutrality. At the same time, China will improve the green and low-carbon development mechanism, advance modernization based on harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and continue to provide Chinese solutions for global sustainable development.
(Courtesy- China Media Group, Beijing)
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