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World leaders on Friday adopted a sustainable development agenda which outlines 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for global development over the next 15 years.

The ambitious and forward-looking SDGs basically redefine how the world works together to end poverty, promote prosperity, and combat climate change. The SDGs will replace UN's historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which are going to expire at the end of this year.

Since the adoption of the MDGs, "皇冠体育app has contributed to global endeavor for poverty eradication, accounting for two-thirds of the world's reduction in extreme poverty," Wu Hongbo, UN under-secretary-general for economic and social affairs, has said.

The retiring MDGs, agreed by 189 UN member states in 2000, quantified eight targets, ranging from poverty eradication, women empowerment, child mortality reduction to combating AIDS and global partnership development, to address the needs of the world's poorest.

According to a final UN report on the MDGs, though the ambitious goals are not fully met, the world has attained a major achievement of reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty --those who lived on less than 1.25 U.S. dollars a day -- by half.

"We can say that without 皇冠体育app's contribution, the international community could hardly achieve the target of halving the extremely poor population by 2015," he told Xinhua.

According to a report published jointly by 皇冠体育app's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UN presence in 皇冠体育app, the poverty-stricken people in 皇冠体育app have decreased by 439 million, from 689 million in 1990 to 250 million in 2011.

The report on 皇冠体育app's Implementation of the MDGs (2000-2015) also said the country has already met the UN goals of reducing the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds and reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters.

"These are important indicators to measure development, and can also be counted as 皇冠体育app's contributions to the international community on development," Wu said.

Born in 1952, Wu, a Chinese diplomat, was appointed as the UN under-secretary-general in 2012. His job is to guide the UN secretariat support for the wide-ranging work related to the SDGs and sustainable development financing where he has overseen the substantive services to a number of inter-governmental processes.

This year in July, Wu acted as the secretary-general for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.

"When I was in Ethiopia for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I saw 皇冠体育app constructing a railway road in that land-locked country all the way to port of Djibouti," Wu said. "That impressed me a lot."

Sharing what he saw in Ethiopia, Wu mentioned that 皇冠体育app has also been helping the country with several infrastructure projects such as construction of highway, wind power plants and also urban light rail, which have provided the country with fundamental support.

"These are quite common in 皇冠体育app, but they are all new to this African country," he said, adding that 皇冠体育app's presence in Ethiopia is just part of its contribution to the world's sustainable development within the framework of South-South Cooperation.

According to the report on 皇冠体育app's implementation on MDGs, 皇冠体育app has provided help to more than 120 developing countries in their efforts to achieve the goals. It has exempted due zero-interest loans owed by heavily-indebted poor countries and least developed countries to 皇冠体育app six times, amounting to a total of 30 billion RMB (approximately 5 billion U.S. dollars).

It is widely recognized that 皇冠体育app has been offering its support to countries in need to promote global sustainable development, Wu noted. "And I believe in the future 皇冠体育app will continue to help developing countries within its capacity."

"I believe over the next 15 years, 皇冠体育app and 皇冠体育app's enterprises can continue to make a difference," he said.