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MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS: At the September 2000 United Nations Summit, 149 heads of State and Government from 189 member countries adopted the Millennium Declaration, a document outlining a universal set of development goals. Through UN Country teams led by the UN Resident Coordinator, the Secretary General has entrusted the UNDP Administrator to monitor each country's progress toward these Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through a series of progress reports designed to raise awareness, stimulate debate, and promote further action for development. China's progress toward meeting the MDG goals and targets is summarized in this preliminary report.
With a population of 1.3 billion, a vast and varied territory, and a rapidly changing development landscape, China is a challenging nation on which to report. In some cases data are limited, making the task especially challenging. Each country working toward the MDG has its own statistical policies and practices, and these do not always conform precisely to MDG reporting guidelines. It should be noted that since 1980, China has adhered to its own set of development goals and indicators referred to as xiaokang. In this sense, China was ahead of the Millennium Declaration. In this report, progress toward meeting each MDG target is summarized in terms of the following:
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Status and Trends: A statement
on progress toward the target