China’s Global Efforts to Achieve Un Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of Juncao Technology

Gordanić, Jelica (2025) China’s Global Efforts to Achieve Un Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of Juncao Technology. In: Recalibrating the Global Compass : China and Shared Future in a Fragmented World. Institute of International Politics and Economics, Beograd, pp. 621-636. ISBN 978-86-7067-356-4

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Abstract

The United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015 as the most significant agreement reached by the international community on green energy, healthcare improvement, eradicating poverty, gender equality, and other development goals. On the internal level, China has achieved considerable results in the realisation of some sustainable development goals (SDGs). This paper is focused on China’s global efforts to achieve the SDGs. It highlights China’s Global Development Initiative, which aims to support the timely achievement of all 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda by revitalising global development partnerships and promoting stronger, greener, and healthier global development. The paper also points out significant steps in greening the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and taking measures like reducing climate emissions, reducing pollution, and protecting biodiversity. The central part of the paper is dedicated to Juncao, a technology developed in China and transferred to developing countries in the South Pacific, Africa, and Latin America. Juncao is a hybrid grass that allows farmers to grow various edible and medicinal mushrooms from dried, chopped grasses without cutting down trees and damaging the environment. It helps combat land degradation by providing fodder for livestock and minimising soil erosion. As such, Juncao technology has the potential to achieve 13 of the 17 SDGs: eliminating poverty and hunger, promoting food security, ensuring and increasing employment, tackling climate change, protecting the ecological environment, child malnutrition, youth unemployment, empowering women, etc. Juncao technology has become an important part of the agendas of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the World Food Programme (WFP). The paper concludes that China has corrected some previous SDGs-related mistakes and made serious efforts to help the UN realise the SDGs. Juncao technology, developed in the 1980s, fits China’s efforts to achieve the SDGs, especially in the global South.

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