As China’s development evolved, our partnerships also expanded to areas such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, and low-carbon urban development, often in collaboration with the private sector and international agencies.  

What is particularly encouraging is how many of these early pilots have since been scaled up nationwide, having made China a manufacturing and innovation hub of the world.    

At the same time, while we have seen the benefits technologies can have, it is important to also recognize the potential challenges that they can bring about.  

Technology has the greatest impact on sustainable development progress globally when it reaches the communities that need it most, and is adapted to local realities.  

However, if not made accessible to all, technologies also have the power to exacerbate inequalities and deepen disparities between people, sectors, and countries. 

This is why facilitating technology cooperation is critical to accelerating the SDGs, in particular for developing countries.

Too often, the very solutions that could transform lives - affordable solar, clean cooking, climate-smart agriculture, low-carbon manufacturing - remain out of reach of those who need them most. Closing that technology gap is one of the key development tasks of our time. 

When we facilitate sustainable technology solutions that can be adapted to developing countries — and when we ensure they reach not only large incumbents but also the small and medium-sized enterprises and women-owned businesses that create most of the world's jobs — technological cooperation becomes a powerful engine of a just transition.  

As the United Nations' largest development agency, UNDP is working on the ground in 170 countries and territories to advance this vision. 

Through our Climate Promise — the world's largest offer of support on climate action, working with more than 140 countries to design and deliver their national climate pledges — we help governments turn commitments into real green transitions: into renewable energy investment, into low-carbon industry, and into the new jobs that come with them[iii].  

We also support inclusive digital transformation strategies in over 125 countries, so that no community is left behind as economies modernize. 

China, with its scale, manufacturing capacity, and rapidly advancing green innovation, can play an important role in technology cooperation. 

With close to 30 percent of global manufacturing value added, and as a leading hub of green innovation, China is uniquely positioned to be a solutions partner — both for its own Dual Carbon goals of peaking emissions before 2030 and reaching neutrality before 2060, and for the wider developing world. 

This potential is already being realized in practice. Right here in Shanghai, our joint project with the China International Centre for Economic and Technical Exchanges of MOFCOM, together with UNOPS, the Qingpu District Government, and local partners, has over the past several years advanced the sustainable production and procurement agenda on the ground — strengthening the capacity of more than three thousand Chinese SMEs and women-owned businesses to meet international sustainability standards, and helping many of them register on the UN Global Marketplace. It is a living example of how local innovation can be linked to global sustainable supply chains. 

This work also points to something essential moving forward. For Chinese enterprises to excel in international markets, and to take a full part in global technology cooperation, strong ESG practice and alignment with international standards is no longer optional — it has become the entry point to global supply chains. China's own move toward mandatory ESG disclosure for major listed companies, in line with global standards, is an encouraging step in exactly this direction. 

All of this underscores why platforms like CSITF matter. A sustainable technology solution that finds the right partner and the right market can drive meaningful changes.  

Indeed, the essence of this Fair lies precisely there - in facilitating two-way technology exchanges and linking the demand with the supply of sustainable technology solutions.  

This matchmaking conference is where those connections are made — where domestic and international technology companies, industry stakeholders, investors, and service providers meet, build trust, and forge partnerships.  

In closing, I want to express my appreciation to the Shanghai Commerce Commission, the Shanghai International Technology Import and Export Promotion Center, and China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products for hosting this event and creating this important space for dialogue and partnership. 

To our enterprise partners — by embedding sustainability and ESG into your operations, you do far more than future-proof your business. You become contributors to global progress, and you remain agile in an increasingly volatile world.  

And to our government and institutional partners — policy frameworks, capacity building, and green financing for SMEs and women-owned businesses remain the keys to a transition that is both successful and just. 

With just four years left to deliver on the promise of the 2030 Agenda, let's use the technologies and partnerships gathered here to forge a greener, more inclusive, and more sustainable future for everyone, everywhere. 

Thank you. 谢谢 

[i] The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2025/The-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Report-2025.pdf

[ii] UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024  https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024 

[iii] UNDP Climate Promise  https://climatepromise.undp.org/