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Human Development progress slows to a 35-year low according to UN Development Programme report

Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to a new report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report shows how Artificial Intelligence (AI) could reignite development.

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How hospitals in China are saving costs and thriving through a green transformation

Hospitals are central to any modern society as they exist to save lives. Yet, they also contribute CO2 and exacerbate the very public health risks they are trying to treat. In Shanghai, learn how UNDP and partners have supported Huashan Hospital to cut their CO2 by 2,500 tons annually.

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How UNDP is Helping to Strengthen Evaluation Capacities in a Local Chinese Institution

In a complex world, monitoring and evaluation are crucial to making development efforts effective, inclusive, and responsive to global challenges.

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Coming Soon: ReThink Phase II

Marking 5 years of impact at the UNDP's SDG Innovation Lab in Chengdu, and what comes next

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2024 Year in Review

Watch UNDP China's 2024 Year in Review to see how we've been driving progress with partners to advance the SDGs.

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National Dialogue 2024: Youth Innovators Driving China To a Greener Future

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Empowering Women, Powering the Future: Engaging Women in the Hydrogen Sector for a Greener Future

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UNDP and Partners Launch Green and Digital Innovation Project in Baoting, Hainan

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UNDP Resident Representative in China Signs Financial Agreements on Two New Initiatives Supporting Early Warning Systems in Pakistan and the Maldives

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Reviving Camellia Village: A Success Story of Rural Transformation through Sustainable Wastewater Solutions in Yunnan

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UNDP and Tongji University’s College of Civil Engineering Join Hands to Tackle Climate and Disaster Resilience

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UNDP assists China in integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into development decisions, promotes the transition to an inclusive, low-carbon economy and a sustainable society, protects biodiversity, and informs China’s international development cooperation engagement to advance global progress on the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Human Development Report 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The choices that people have and can realize, within ever expanding freedoms, are essential to human development, whose goal is for people to live lives they value and have reason to value. A world with AI is flush with choices the exercise of which is both a matter of human development and a means to advance it. Going forward, development depends less on what AI can do—not on how human-like it is perceived to be—and more on mobilizing people’s imaginations to reshape economies and societies to make the most of it. Instead of trying vainly to predict what will happen, this year’s Human Development Report asks what choices can be made so that new development pathways for all countries dot the horizon, helping everyone have a shot at thriving in a world with AI.

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Our impact 

(2024)

76,000+

youths

empowered and educated

1,000+

micro, small & medium enterprises

trained and equipped

29,194.61

hectares

of land protected

138.2

tons

of CO2 offset through UNDP Greening Moonshot Initiative

414

million

people reached through advocacy and awareness campaigns

34,000+

women entrepreneurs

empowered (2023-2024)

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