Abstract

In September,2015, the UN General Assembly established the Sustainable Development Goals（SDGs）. The SDGs specify 17 universal goals,169 targets, and 230 indicators leading up to 2030. SDGs are broader and more ambitious than the MDGs, which indicated that almost all the SDGs are directly related to health or will contribute to health indirectly. One goal（SDG3）specifically sets out to＇Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Countries need to establish a new monitoring framework to explore progress toward achieving the SDGs. This book systematically compiled data and provided a“health SDG BASE-LINE”for China in 2015. Our analysis not only highlights the importance of NCD, TB, air pollution and road injuries as key areas of health improvement but also emphasizes that investments in these areas separately will not be sufficient. Although considerable progress on the health-related MDG indicators has been made, these gains will need to be sustained and, in many cases, accelerated to achieve the ambitious SDG targets. The minimal improvement in or worsening of health -related indicators beyond the MDGs highlight the need for additional resources to effectively address the expanded scope of the health-related SDGs.