The decade since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has been a decade of historic achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, and it is also a decade of significant achievements and milestones in promoting sustainable development.
In the past decade, facing the changes in the international environment and many risks and challenges, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has united and led the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country, based on the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, calmly responding to the century-old changes and the century-old epidemic, and striving to complete the tasks of reform, development and stability. New historic changes have taken place in all undertakings of the Party and the country, and new historic achievements have been made in reform and opening up and Chinese-style modernization, achieving the first centenary goal, and embarking on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and marching towards the second centenary goal.
In the past decade, as the world's largest developing country and responsible major country, China has always unswervingly fulfilled its commitment to sustainable development and has achieved remarkable results in promoting the realization of the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals -
In the past decade, China's economic strength has reached a great level, with its total economic output rising from 53.9 trillion yuan in 2012 to 114.4 trillion yuan in 2021, and its share of the world economy has increased from 11.3% to more than 18%. National income has increased significantly and the gap has continued to narrow. The per capita disposable income of residents across the country has increased from 16,500 yuan in 2012 to 35,100 yuan in 2021. During the same period, the Gini coefficient of residents' income has decreased from 0.474 to 0.466.
In the past decade, China has historically solved the problem of absolute poverty that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years. Under the current standards, all 98.99 million rural poor people have been lifted out of poverty, all 832 poor counties have been lifted out of poverty, and all 128,000 poor villages have been removed from the list, winning the battle against poverty, creating a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction, and making great contributions to the world's poverty reduction cause.
In the past decade, China's ecological environment protection has undergone historic, turning point and global changes. The air quality index PM2.5 dropped from 46 micrograms/cubic meter in 2015 to 30 micrograms/cubic meter in 2021. The ratio of excellent days reached 87.5% in 2021, becoming the country with the fastest improvement in air quality in the world; the proportion of excellent water sections in Class I to III increased by 23.3 percentage points to 84.9%, which is close to the level of developed countries; the forest area increased by 7.1%, reaching 227 million hectares, contributing 1/4 of the new forest area to the world, creating a world-renowned ecological miracle and a miracle of green development.
In the past ten years, China has successfully built a social security system with distinct Chinese characteristics, the largest and complete functions in the world. The number of people participating in basic medical insurance exceeds 1.36 billion, 14.2 million elderly people are included in urban and rural minimum living allowances, 3.717 million elderly people are included in special hardship support, serious illness insurance covers 1.22 billion urban and rural residents, and long-term care insurance covers nearly 150 million people.
In the past decade, China has actively participated in global climate and environmental governance, declared to the world a major strategic decision on carbon peak and carbon neutrality, demonstrated the responsibility of a responsible major country, launched a broad and profound economic and social systemic change, promoted the green and low-carbon transformation of my country's economy and society, promoted high-quality development, and promoted the world towards a clean, beautiful and sustainable future.
After great changes in the world that have not been seen in a century, the Communist Party of China has always stood at the forefront of history and the development of the times. The brilliant achievements and experience achievements continuously achieved under the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core have condensed great wisdom and great strategies for realizing the great rejuvenation and sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and will surely become a precious treasure that contributes to the cause of sustainable development of mankind.
"Sustainable Development Economic Guide" wishes to welcome the successful convening of the 20 major events with the special plan of "Sustainable Development·China's Ten Years - China's Sustainable Development Brief and the Road to Forward in the New Era".
article丨Deng Mingwen
source丨"Sustainable Development Economic Guide" 2022 Issue 9-10
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