Sustainable development to shine in China

Founded under instructions from the country's top leadership in 2017, the CIKD aims to research and communicate with other countries on development theories and practice, especially in terms of summarizing and sharing China's development knowledge, as well as promoting international development cooperation and global sustainable development, said Ma Jiantang, president of the CIKD.

To perform these roles, the CIKD has rolled out various reports about China's development experience in such areas as in reducing poverty and combating the COVID-19 outbreak, and organized a sustainable development forum to explore actions of relevant parties in implementing the 2030 Agenda, among other key moves, Ma said.

"The goal is neither to import development patterns of foreign countries nor to export China's mode, but to share development knowledge via two-way exchanges and provide developing economies with multiple choices and references," Ma said at the symposium.

Ma added the center will strengthen cooperation with international partners to share China's development experience. It has also started to compile its third report of assessing China's progress in implementing the 2030 Agenda, to be released next year.