1、MONITORING CHINAS HUMAN DEVELOPMENTAssessing economic and social progress,as well as environmental costs,across Chinese regions and citiesFebruary 2026Assessing economic and social progress,as well as environmental costs,across Chinese regions and citiesMONITORING MONITORING CHINAS CHINAS HUMAN HUMA
2、N DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT14MONITORING CHINAS HUMAN DEVELOPMENTCONTENTSAcknowledgement This report was a joint effort between the China Institute for Development Planning,the Institute for Circular Economy at Tsinghua University,and United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)China.We thank colleagues f
3、rom both teams for their dedicated work.The expert group from Tsinghua University was led by Yongheng Yang,Director of the China Institute for Development Planning at Tsinghua University,and Bing Zhu,Director of the Institute for Circular Economy at Tsinghua University.Primary authors from the group
4、 include Pu Gong,Meng Jiang,and Siyao Zhu.The UNDP team includes Rong Shi,and Xinyi Qu,Kailai Zeng,Xiaomeng Kang,Daryl Lahm and Yichao Wen for research support.The report has also benefitted from the valuable advice and suggestions of many experts and scholars.We would like to thank Yu Dong,Executiv
5、e Vice Director of China Institute for Development Planning,Tsinghua University,and Professor Wenji Zhou of Renmin University of China,for their guidance on the report drafting.We also express our gratitude to Violante di Canossa(UNDP China),for her review and valuable feedback,as well as to colleag
6、ues in the UNDP Human Development Report Office,Yanchun Zhang and Som Kumar Shrestha and Philip Schellekens(UNDP RBAP).Lastly,we would like to thank Roddy Flagg and Grace Brown for their translation and editing work.This report also received support from the National Social Science Fund of China(23&