This document is translated by the British Chamber of Commerce in China. 

China's Five-Year Plans(FYP) are blueprints providing overall objectives and goals related to social and economic growth and industrial planning in key sectors and regions. Compared to previous FYPs, the 12th FYP focuses more on the quality, rather...

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind in the 21st century. The Chinese Government has always attached great importance to tackling climate change and strengthened the work on low-carbon development and climate change adaptation since the beginning of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020). As an important...

Guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development, the Chinese government is accelerating its development of a modern energy industry, taking resource conservation and environmental protection as two basic state policies, giving prominence to building a resource-conserving and environment-friendly society in the course of its industrialization and modernization, striving to enhance...

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Nepal's Sustainable Development Agenda aims to guide and influence national-level planning and policies up to 2017. The agenda presented draws upon and is in conformity with the longer term goals envisaged in the Ninth Plan (1997-2002), the Tenth Plan (2002-2007), the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, the Millennium Development Goals, and...

Despite holding a mammoth potential for generating clean hydropower, every three in ten rural Nepalese continue to live in darkness. They lack access to the national grid, and the generation of electricity is centralized which is barely keeping up with rising demand as the country urbanizes fast. The national target...

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Nepal Status Paper: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 (Rio+20) synopsis is a process-driven document and an outcome of discussions and deliberations among civil society, government and non-government stakeholders, parliamentarians and local communities. The findings suggest that Nepal has made significant progress on the policy, legislation and institutional aspects...