China released the Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals 2022, which covers 42 typical research cases focusing on seven SDGs and involving 31 sets of data products, 21 method models and 33 decision support information. According to the report, nearly half of the 56 environmental SDG indicators of China have been achieved ahead of schedule. It is the fourth straight year since 2019 that China releases the Report series, providing scientific evidences for quantitative and systematic evaluating the implementation of SDGs at the Chinese, regional and global scales.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday chaired the Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative (GDI) on the sidelines of the ongoing UN General Assembly session in New York, announcing the group's further actions to support the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi chaired the Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative (GDI), announcing that China is ready to strengthen strategic synergy with UN development agencies and work with the countries of the Group of Friends to take seven more steps to implement the 2030 Agenda.

On 13 September, the inaugural meeting for the Remote Sensing and Modeling of Snow and Ice Physical Process (RSMSIP) was held online. More than 10 scientists from the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), the Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) and the Arctic Space Center of the Finish Meteorological Institute (FMI-ARC) participated in the meeting.

On September 7th, CBAS hosted an SDG 17 Special Session on the 2022 International Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (FBAS 2022) under the title “Partnership for an Innovative Sustainable Future.” The Session was organized by CBAS' Cooperation & Development Division.

From September 7 to 9, 2022, the 6th Digital Belt and Road Conference (DBAR 2022) was successfully held in Beijing. The conference was hosted by the Digital Belt and Road Program (DBAR), co-organized by CBAS and the Big Earth Data Science Engineering Program (CASEarth). Nearly 200 experts from China and abroad joined this event.