China SDGs Indicators and Progress Assessment

On September 25, 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit officially adopted Change Our World—2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which sketched the blueprint for the development and cooperation of all countries in the coming years. As the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including 17 sustainable development goals and 169 targets, cover three major areas: economy, society and environment. One of the most important link in implementing SDGs is to measure and monitor each target of SDGs. In March, 2017, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) reported to the UN Statistical Commission a global monitoring and statistical indicator system (IAEG-SDGs in Revised list of global Sustainable Development Goal indicators, 2017) containing 232 indicators, providing a globally harmonized measurement system, but the role in guiding national policy making is relatively limited, so the United Nations encourages countries to develop localized SDGs indicator systems.