The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States. To help track where we are on this journey, and to amplify success stories, in this ...
Xiong Bingqi, deputy head of the 21st Century Education Research Institute in Beijing, said that to achieve the education modernization plan by 2035, the country needs to continue to increase its spending on education, which has been about 4 percent of GDP since 2012. Education has...
In response to the impact of the financial crisis on the global economy and to enhance regional economic and policy cooperation, China introduced two major initiatives in 2013: the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road,” collectively referred to as “the Belt an...
Socialism with Chinese characteristics has crossed the threshold into a new era. This is a historic juncture in China’s development. The report of the 19th Party Congress makes strategic plans on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and requests not only that China should finish...
the middle of the century. The 14th Five-Year Plan is the first five-year plan to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way and march towards the second centenary goal, which is the historical mission and basic positioning of the 14th Five-Year Plan. The new stage of ...
What was the Progressive Movement? What was the Progressive Movement? The Progressive Movement was a political movement that addressed the consequences of the rapid industrialization and economic growth of the 19th century. Its supporters were known as Reformists or Progressives and generally ...
after the agitation of the North American 19th-century Black activists, proved that reform movements were capable of making much change. Another was that, with the freeing of those who had been enslaved but the residual effects of a story of “natural” inferiority of those of African descent,...
From their inception in the late 19th century, strong public schools were a cornerstone of our evolving republic. They enabled the successful assimilation of several generations of immigrants, providing a portal to the American Dream for one and all. ...
The second wave of feminism is the period of the women’s movement in the United States that emerged in the 1960s and lasted through the 1970s. Unlike the first wave of feminism, of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which focused primarily on securing w
The goals of emission reduction in the second half of this century under the Paris Agreement for all countries are a long-term process that considers a decrease in total emissions and emission growth rate; a typical case is China’s carbon peaking and carbon-neutral targets. Second, this ...