China has made remarkable strides toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with 60.5 percent of its 233 tracked indicators either on track or already achieved, according to the Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals: Special Report for a Decade of the SDGs ("the Report"), released on the UN website on September 27, 2025. In contrast, global progress remains uneven, with only 16.9 percent of 59 monitored indicators on track to meet 2030 targets, 27 advancing slowly, five stalled, and 17 regressing.

HANGZHOU, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Two landmark outcome documents were adopted at the 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, charting the course for the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme over the next decade.

HANGZHOU, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Some 4,000 delegates from over 150 countries and regions gathered in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, for the 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves and discussed ways to protect biosphere reserves and achieve sustainable development.

BEIJING, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have developed a hybrid framework to trace sources and change of on-road carbon dioxide emissions in real time with 30-meter resolution, according to a research article recently published in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society.

On Sept. 6, the Fifth International Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (FBAS 2025) opened in Beijing. The world's first large-scale artificial intelligence model designed to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was unveiled.

Global scientists met in Beijing to discuss how big data can advance the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing the need for global cooperation to speed up progress.