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On UNDP’s 60th Anniversary, Acting Administrator Haoliang Xu to Visit China to Strengthen Partnerships for Sustainable Development

UNDP Acting Administrator Haoliang Xu will make official visit to China this month to strengthen partnerships for the SDGs.

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RISE Week 2025 Opens in Shanghai to Explore Pathways for Resilient Urban Futures

Hosted by Tongji University in Shanghai, RISE Week brings together experts, policymakers and practitioners from around the world, to explore innovative solutions and capacity-building to drive sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient urban development.

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UNDP and China sign Statement of Intent to establish Global Centre for Sustainable Development

Planned UNDP Global Centre for Sustainable Development will prioritize green economic transition, digital economy, trade, and sustainable finance to help developing countries advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Local Solutions, Global Goals: Communities in China Driving Path to "Zero-Waste" Future

Stories of how localized efforts lead a national path to zero-waste

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The Power of Creativity For a Sustainable Future

Highlights from Re:Think 2025 Innovation Week

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Press Release
UNDP Asian Mayors Forum in Beijing: City Leaders Unite for Collaborative Innovation and Sustainable Urban Futures

City leaders, policymakers, and urban experts from across Asia and beyond convened yesterday in Beijing for the Asian Mayors Forum, a high-level segment of the 2025 Beijing CBD Forum.

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Press Release
UNDP MSME Day 2025 Successfully Held in Beijing

This year's MSME Day theme is focused on "Green Innovation Empowering MSME Resilience – Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals."

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Press Release
UNDP and Tongji University Launch RISE Lab to Pioneer Global Solutions for Resilient Cities

UNDP in China in collaboration with Tongji University and the CICETE, officially launched the RISE Lab, dedicated to tackling some of the most pressing challenges facing cities in the 21st century.

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Report
Rural Revitalization in China

As China’s rural transformation progresses, the report provides an in-depth account of China’s policies, progress, and lessons learned.

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3 Ways UNDP China is Working to Bridge the Financing Gap for Sustainable Development

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Driving the Hydrogen Future: From Vision to Reality

How a two-decade partnership has driven the adoption of fuel cell vehicles in China

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One planet, all species living in harmony

Nature is the foundation of civilization and humanity's most powerful ally. From the air we breathe to the food we eat, our lives are inextricably linked with the natural world, and by extension, all other living things which, like us, depend on it for survival.

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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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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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76,000+

youths

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1,000+

micro, small & medium enterprises

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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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